Seagate will have 14TB and 16TB hard drives in 18 months

it's never a over kill take this for example https://vrworld.com/2014/05/05/sonys-new-185-tb-tape-drive-cassette/

Lol seagate calm down.

anyone need 16 tb? :D

16 tb

16TB does seem like a lot. But with all the pics and vids that everyone takes with their 12 mega pixel camera phones, I can see how people will need the space.  Hard drives have to keep up with the ever increasing file sizes that we get from new tech. 

They should focus on speed and reliability more than capacity. A failed harddrive is a nightmare.

Might need to pick this up down the line to store them data. Heh.

_Knightwolf_ said:

it's never a over kill take this for example https://vrworld.com/2014/05/05/sonys-new-185-tb-tape-drive-cassette/

IOPS? This is for storage only I guess. The op is talking about a HDD

I already own a 8TB Seagate HDD (14TB storage total).  The new drives would come just in time to replace my old ones.

As a word of warning: All of these super high (for now) capacity drives achieve this density because of SMR.

The catch is that SMR doesn't work with RAID; they aren't good with sustained writes and from what I can see that also includes RAID-1 (MIRRORING).

What I do myself is buy a pair of drives at the "sweet spot" of pricing and just use mirroring. Sure, I lose 1/2 the overall drive capacity but I know my data is safe with minimal effort. If a drive dies, I go out and buy two new ones and the survivor becomes an offsite backup.

See:

http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb