>So what do microwaves have to do with hard drives? Well Western Digital has developed a “spin torque oscillator”, which is used to generate a microwave field, which increases the ability to record data at ultra-high density without sacrificing reliability. Using MAMR, WD expects to offer over four terabits-per-square-inch over time. With continued improvements and refinements to this technology, we should see 40TB MAMR HDDs by 2025.
>With continued improvements and refinements to this technology, we should see 40TB MAMR HDDs by 2025.
>HDDs by 2025
LMAO
Samuel White
until high capacity ssds stop being extremely expensive and shitting themselves when turned off for more than a few days HDDs will still have their place
Matthew Edwards
Will this be enough for Google's data centres to keep growing or will it be too late?
Dominic Roberts
>Well Western Digital has developed did they patent it? is it limited to their brand only?
Jaxon Ortiz
Thats a great breakthrough and will make data a lot cheaper to store, when 4k will be mainstream by then and everyone will have a few TB of videos.
Jace Myers
>4k will be mainstream by then and everyone will have a few TB of videos.
4K is already pretty mainstream, their solution to it taking up huge amounts of space was to move to H265 codec
Also people generally these days are not hoarding videos, things are going streaming/on demand.
Matthew Richardson
But how will the speed be?
I don't want to still be writing at trash 75 MB/s in 2025, it would take fucking forever to write 40TB of shit that way.
We need a few hundred MB minimum or this will just be annoying as fuck and you'll kill the drive just writing it to capacity in one go.
Aaron Brooks
It's a problem for content creators though.
Even your average Joe has a 4k video camera in his phone now, storage will still be an issue.
Jace Cooper
kek, good meme mates
Jordan Powell
Yeah, in the perfect world in 2025 we will have gigabit connections to store terabytes of videos in the cloud or at desktop while paying mere satoshis for the companies to store it.
In reality I will have to open a loot box for 2,99 for a chance to store my video and drink a verification can to unlock my phone.
Julian Butler
As long as they can keep storage per cost way below SSDs they will never be replaced
Lincoln Smith
>drink a verification can Oh, that takes me back
Liam Cox
>H265 codec Why not NetVC?
>Also people generally these days are not hoarding videos, things are going streaming/on demand. I want off of this ride
Gavin Jenkins
>Also people generally these days are not hoarding videos, things are going streaming/on demand. Nigger....
Ryan Garcia
>It's a problem for content creators though. Lets not bring into this fringe cases as if they are represent the average user.
>Even your average Joe has a 4k video camera in his phone now, storage will still be an issue. Samsung has had 4K video since at least the Note 3 ( 4 years ago) and no one seems to be running out of space
Honestly for the average user these larger drives mean nothing. You look at what is being sold to consumers these days its usually in the 1TB to 3TB range There is a strong push for SSDs in the computers instead And we have long been at a point with technology that space is growing faster than most people can fill it (unless we bring fringe cases into the mix)
What this does mean for consumers is hopefully cheaper/more cloud storage for them.
Nolan Ross
>space is growing faster than most people can fill it *Programs Your Operating System* Heh, nothing personal kid.
Ayden Rogers
>Yeah, in the perfect world in 2025 we will have gigabit connections to store terabytes of videos in the cloud or at desktop while paying mere satoshis for the companies to store it. And those cloud services will be using MAMR 40TB drives to store all that data.
Blake Brown
I don't care for streaming either, but these are just the facts.
Things like direct downloads/bittorrent peaked years ago and streaming has remained king since then
Luke Morales
40+TB 3.5' SSDs already exist and are available to consumers. They're incredibly expensive but they exist. These HDDs don't even exist yet, by the time they do high capacity SSDs will have come down in price.
Anthony Cox
>HDDs will still have their place LMAO
Charles Robinson
>Things like direct downloads/bittorrent peaked years ago with retarded kids and normies and streaming has remained king since all the retards left ftfy
Enthusiasts will never buy into streaming only. Every time we come close a company starts getting greedy and fucking its customers and it's right back to the tried and true for the savvy groups, this is how it will always be.
In 20 years companies will try to deliver all their content via DRM enabled binary blobs so that people can't pirate it and they have to buy 5 copies of everything; stupid people will pay for it because they are stupid, you already see this exact thing happening with apple vs android users and windows vs linux users.
if the means to enable local storage projects and file sharing do not exist then the smarter groups will create them and a market will begin to cater to them, it's just capitalism. You think WD or Seagate gives a shit about piracy? Fuck no, it sells their HDDs and gets them paid.
Piracy and local storage will always have a place in the internet ecosystem, it's needed just as much as anything else.
Honestly, it's good that the popular crowd has moved on from these technologies to the shitter easier to use services, it means that the majority of people will stay on their fisher price platforms while the actual enthusiasts will have their ecosystems back. Imagine an internet similar to that of 2003 or so, sounds great to me.
Justin Gray
AV1 will solve storage for 4k.
Tyler Perez
The fact that they don't even mention speeds is pretty telling.
