Why aren't hard drive sizes going up significantly anymore? I feel we've been on 8 TB for years...

Why aren't hard drive sizes going up significantly anymore? I feel we've been on 8 TB for years. They still offer 500 GB externals. Surely we should be on something like 50 TB by now given all the latest games are 50-150GB and 4k video content.

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>60TB SSD

Because filesizes haven't gotten significantly larger.

>Seagate
> runs perfectly for 11 months
> full, [perfect health
> turn off PC
> boot in the morning
> dead
> fucking dead
> nothing recoverable
> period

Fuck Seagate.

They've quadrupled for most media in about 5 years.

mp3 songs are still less than 10MB

>mp3
>2018

First of all, that's incorrect. Secondly, even if it was a correct observation, the number of files has vastly increased.

*dies in your path*

>putting games on hard drives
Imagine being this poor

A two hour 4K movie is easily 10-12 GB.

The storage consortium roadmap claims we are currently on a period of relatively slow growth that should be ending roughly now.

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I have fast internet and unlimited data but it feels a waste redownloading something again.

>costs over $9000
>would need to buy two more for backups

No thanks.

>A two hour 4K movie is easily 10-12 GB.
try 70GB new friend

For rips maybe. Not if you download the whole thing.

Why don't you just buy the Blu-ray then you will free up hard drive space.

Physical media is inconvenient and storage is no concern.

Also the great part about downloads is that you can just re-download, should you ever need to delete something in order to free up space.

Thank god this thing right here gonna force spinning rust to have more gib size

Where can I find full BluRay like this? I wanna do some test on AV1 compression when it' finalized.

>being a poorlet

1. Get a Blu-ray drive for your PC
2. Download MakeMKV
3. Insert Bluray movie into drive and make a copy using MakeMKV
4. ???
5. Profit

>Didn't have backups
>Blames the brand

Any drive from any brand can die. Have backups. Your data does not exist unless you have three copies of it.

That's an old one.
Where's MAMR?

It's like a $20,000 drive

>buys hdd
>sticks it in PC
>forgets to feed it
>surprised it died

>Where can I find full BluRay like this?
Wherever you find illegal downloads. I use torrent trackers personally.
I know >2018 but some private ones are comfy as fuck.

>4. ???
>5. Profit
Nice meme but paying money for both the optical drive and the movie itself is actually the opposite of profit.

Not reliable

This, it fucking starved. What a fucking retard.

>Supporting communist Hollywood

Kys

Normies don't really store anything but personal photos, they stream their music, movies and TV shows. And I think more and more people are using cloud services for their (relatively) small storage needs.

>communist Hollywood
Have you stopped for a second to think how retarded this sounds?

Only if they're re-encoded for disposable consumption.

...have you never heard of a library, user? Or a Redbox? The first is free and the second is literally a dollar versus anywhere from 9.99$ - 30$ for buying a blu-ray.

>(((Seagate)))
No thanks, I don't want to buy a fucking backdoor.

10 and 12 TB hard drives recently became available and the roadmaps show many plans for improving storage capacity for the next several years.

You're thinking of Western Digial


theregister.co.uk/2018/01/08/wd_mycloud_nas_backdoor/

What's the point of high capacity hard drives when the transfer speed is 100MB/s?

Storing more data.

What's the point of spacecraft with a large fuel capacity if they don't travel faster?

Same fucking thing. My desktop worked great for over a year then right about the time the warranty ran out, it suddenly failed. Totally unrecoverable.

Becuase if you put them in an array, you get more speed!
Also 100MB/s is perfectly fine for a 1GBE network.

Most shit NAS are still less than 30MB/s...

Need new tech for smaller storage

Takes a while to justify spending that much when there is faster tech competing (SSDs)

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We will see some leaps in the next decade

Oh man, your data and the backup both failed at the same time? You're the world's most unluckiest man. Of course, if you did backup your data, you'd be the stupidest.

10-12GB is how big an average 1080p movie is in my library.
Of course I encode them/get them from encoders that encode them to be transparent from the blu-ray, but still.

Maybe with H.265 and the whole movie took place in a room with white walls (way more efficient compression compared to rustling leaves outside for H.265)

Are you kidding? 1TB is eaten away easily nowadays, especially with games that are like 55GB or so.

mp3s also suck and we should be using lossless formats like FLAC nowadays.

But it is as retarded as it sounds. Hollywood is a weird contradiction of bullshit.

I'm thinking of both

modern hard drives have backdoored firmware
techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoors-into-hard-drive-firmware
>According to Kaspersky, American cyber-surveillance agency, the NSA, is taking advantage of the centralization of hard-drive manufacturing to the US, by making WD and Seagate embed its spying back-doors straight into the hard-drive firmware, which lets the agency directly access raw data, agnostic of partition method (low-level format), file-system (high-level format), operating system, or even user access-level.
> Kaspersky claims that the new backdoor is perfect in design. Each time you turn your PC on, the system BIOS loads the firmware of all hardware components onto the system memory, even before the OS is booted. This is when the malware activates, gaining access to critical OS components, probably including network access and file-system. This makes HDD firmware the second most valuable real-estate for hackers, after system BIOS.
even full disk encryption won't save you, because backdoored firmware can just send a keylogger to your cpu when you boot your PC, and keylogger will steal the password that you enter to your encryption software bootloader

Fuck US hardware. Never again.

What brands of hard drives are you planning to buy then? Don't they all have this backdoor tech now?

Toshiba. Or any SSD made in Japan/Europe.

>Not knowing the difference between (((Communism))) and Communism

Uhm, like... storing more files? Torrents are bottlenecked by you internet speed, file transfers from portable devices like cameras and phones are bottlenecked by the speed of the shitty flash storage and often USB 2, and 100 MB/s is more than enough for video playback.

Toshiba is owned by wd

Fml, when did this happen?
Then I guess I'll buy random European brands of SSDs and not buy HDDs at all anymore.

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Um no sweetie, internal data transfer rates have increased exponentially in the last few years, some even reaching close to 300MB/sec

>even full disk encryption won't save you, because backdoored firmware can just send a keylogger to your cpu when you boot your PC
How's that even possible if you have iommu

>he doesn't burn his pirated media directly to BD-R

I've got about 120 BD-Rs burned and still going, it's comfy af to put a disc into the tray and play 1080p mkv right off the Blu-Ray disc

Enjoy ur disks degrading after a decade

I have discs that I burned almost 20 years ago, and they still play just fine

>mostly audio CDs though desu

also what is M-disc

>4K movie
>10-12 GB

quoted wrong person

If you're watching a 4k Netflix rip maybe. 10-12GB is okay for an okay 1080p rip. A good 4k rip is 80gb+

Here's a screenshot too

are you kidding me

they just went from 1 - 2 tb to 8tb

how much 'progress' do you want

BD-R isn't CD-RW, senpai.

i want 16 TB drives to become mainstream

Hollywood and LA aren't making anything worth downloading these days (all superhero shit and hipster singing about being molested or maladjusted) TV is all quantity not quality and it all seems to be written by the same 29 year old Jewish Brooklyn numale. I've noticed you can't fill up a 6tb drive with flac audiobooks

>tfw blade runner 2049 was a big loss for the studio despite being a great movie
>tfw this means they’ll probably cancel the planned third movie
this is exactly what I wanted, I feel like three movies is pushing their luck too much with a revival of a classic film and would probably end up being shitty

internet speeds are fast enough that I can have one single player game and 3-4 multiplayer games installed at any given time and just reinstall other games as needed, and wait times to play are never more than half an hour
you don’t need to have everything installed at once user, other than my plex library I live off a 250gb ssd

Uh, they got 12TB drives now. Set you back $500 per but hey think of the consolidation you achieve.

The focus has been on prices recently, rather than size.

Sizes should increase again soon with HAMR and/or MAMR

>not having RAID + weekly offsite backups

You have only yourself to blame

Lol
>doing it wrong

Mine worked 10 years+ daily and still does.

we are talking flac and 4k uhd rips here old man

1-2 TB is like 10 years ago?

anime?

>What is object based audio encoding

>waiting half an hour
Why not just drive to the movie while you're at it.

Just get multiple drives and a good RAID controller.

for children and manchildren

>hurr it wasnt real socialism

>muh superior Western media

Western media is also complete garbage

>Seagate
kek

Are Seagates really that bad?

I normally go with WD, but got a pair of 2TB Seagates for my laptop because they were $30 cheaper.

Do they really just die out of nowhere?

No, it's just the Backblaze meme.

Basically they got a bunch of refurbished external Seagate HDDs, ran them under server load instead of rated load, and became surprised when they failed at a high rate. The moral of the story is to not use external consumer drives in a server environment.

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They look at returns rates for returns made within the first year.

Yes I am on Sup Forums after all. I've mostly kept to the Monster/NGE/SayonaraZS/Bebop world as I don't have time to watch all 10 of the loli lesbian robot anime that come out each season

>still using stereo or mono audio channel

With streaming, it's pretty pointless. I'm only using about 4gb of my SSD

The last major breakthrough in HDD tech to hit the mainstream was in the early 2000s and everything since then has been just improving on that, at the moment they've kind of hit the limit of what they can do with that tech. There is new stuff like shingled magnetic recording but its new enough that there is a major price premium attached to it.

With storage in its current state, there really isn't a huge consumer demand for huge drives or whatever especially as most people just have a few hundred GB of data and have the rest of their shit in the cloud so HDD makers are free to charge whatever they want for 6+ TB drives.

>Becuase if you put them in an array, you get more speed!

hasn't user learned anything?

Are HGST as reliable as people say they are?

Both my portable Seagate slim stopped working when they fell on the floor from my desk. I haven't opened them yet to check the needle. The only upside is on some of the Seagate models, the HDDs arent permanently connected to the USB3 socket like some portable WD drives are now.

(con't)
Tho I still haven't checked if my Seagate slims have Samsung HDDs inside.