News Seagate says: 300TB drives by the year 2010

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01/03/seagate_says_300tb_drives_by_2010/

 

THIS WILL ROCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK !!!

Man I fill 300 Gb only !!! and 200 Gb free !!! and those Talking about 300T !!! LOL I will Keep My talk With 500 GB

Thanks for news Waiting for drop this harddisk drive to 10 $

Good luck , CK

 

That would be fantastic for media storage that isn't mission critical.
I currently regularly fill my 500GB of drives with ease (photos, DV tapes, music, Games), though as already stated the reliability of these drives would be of great concern.

 

Well I have 2 250GB drives and they are both full (Less than 5GB each)
I have a large DVD collection and only ever use them once, to put them on the Hard drive.

 

Surely this and the popularity of downloadable material (alongside broadband speed increases) will completely negate the need for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray?

By 2010 solid state devices will also be much bigger, affordable and much more versatile.

 

Sounds great, I must admit.

But I would've hoped by 2010 we wouldn't be focusing so much on the clunky mechanisms of spinning discs to record/read data. I would've thought by then new tech flash memory would be the drive/focus... obviously with significantly higher storage capacities and retention/stability periods.

 

I agree with the general concensus... By 2010 I hope there's a better and more reliable system of storing data.

 

bloody hell, backups are going to be a total pain, even with next gen optical backup media.

 

Will they come with porn?

 

surely 300TB is porn!

 

I could do with the space. I currently have 3 x 120gb drives and 1 x 80gb. Im all outaspace. 1 x 120gb drive is used for my TV recordings from my PVR card. The other 2 120gb drives are used for my video editing. I drive for the video and the other drive a backup of the video. 1 tape from my camera takes up 15gb so its only 8 tapes i cant fit on the 120gb and leaves no room for the editing.

That reminds me I just finished a wedding DVd so that will free up 60GB for now.

 

Why else would you need 300TB?

 

Anybody got numbers of read/write? 3Gbit/s seems a little weak.

What broadband connection do you mean? Fastest connection I know of is this:

http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sd...327899.s_5,:1426061.s_5,&sdc_sid=33642822358&

And 107 Gbit/s is damn fast IMO.

 

Wow, 300TB. Just 1 TB would be ok in my books, I've got 280GB full and I'm constantly burning DVDs just to get stuff off the harddrive. Qaudrupling that space would be great but I think it would be largely unused... Then again, three years ago I said I couldn't imagine myself filling up 200GB of space and look at me now

 

I want 5, so I can have a petabit.

 

I'll believe this when I see it in front of me. Every few years we hear about some new storage technique which is going to massively increase storage to near godlike levels. A while back it was holographic("which could be with us by 2007") or perpendicular being talked of as if it would take us to a handfull of terrabytes right of the mark(it's done no such thing).

'tis a nice dream, but I simple don't believe it. The upside is that disks are pretty much growing in size faster than the vast majority of users need them to.

 

Seems like an overkill imo, and I can't see a use for it. May be useful in the corporate world, but for home users it's just stupid.

I wish they'd focus more on non-magnetic storage - HDD's are so unreliable...

 

I'm looking foward to this, so that you can get a 160GB or 320 real cheap (pence!) I use only 20GB on my Mac, but that is probably cus I don't have any games and any of the software i need. lol

 

I'm well past the 2Tb barrier in terms of use now with almost 2.5Tb full.

 

Which has relevence to this thread how?