IHS Predicts HDD Capacity Will Double By 2016

Source: Legit Reviews

SSDs may be the fast and cool storage devices to own, but hard disc drives are not becoming obsolete anytime soon, due to their shear amount of storage capacity which SSDs can't touch. Technology research compan ...
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Hard drive densities to double by 2016

Source: Hexus

The current technology used in HDDs called perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) is reaching its data density limits. Growth rates would have been higher otherwise. HDDs will still be a very important component, especi ...
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Seagate buys LaCie: good for who?

Source: ZDNet

Summary: Seagate announced this morning that they are purchasing LaCie, the French consumer storage company, for $186 million. Should we worry? It’s the money For decades hard drive companies have moaned about their low margins w ...
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Hard Drive Capacity Could Increase to 60TB by 2016, IHS iSuppli Says

Source: Hot Hardware

Remember when hard drive capacities were measured in megabytes instead of gigabytes? Perhaps you can recall using cassette tapes to store your data. Those digital dark ages are long gone, and today's hard drives are much more capaci ...
Full article at: Hot Hardware  More like this  3 days ago, 10:21am CDT

By 2016, HDDs Will Have Twice as Much Storage

Source: Softpedia

We've been writing about hard disk drives and how the so-called crisis wasn't really that big a crisis at all, and now we are taking up the subject again, although not in the same manner. Rather than pulling apart from the seams the whole not-crisis ...
Full article at: Softpedia  More like this  3 days ago, 2:52am CDT

60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016

Source: Slashdot

SlashTV Library Newsletter Jobs binspam dupe notthebest offtopic slownewsday stale stupid fresh funny insightful interesting maybe descriptive 33247303 story Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 22, @05:43PM from the that's-a-lot-of ...
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