Today they offer 32TB drives on SATA 6gpbs... If that is 'acceptable' then reading the entire drive takes at least 18 hours or so in theory. If same interface, then you'd be limited to 78 hours...
But wait, there's been talk about spinning platters being upgraded to NVME interfaces. Largely because "why accommodate spinning drives with a separate interface", but if this comes in, and could credibly in that timeframe have NVMe with PCIe 6, then the total drive read time could be reduced to
I was surprised to discover that you can purchase a 30TB hard drive for about half a grand.
That's 30,000 gigabytes, or about 30,000 hours of recorded video. How much of a person's life could be recorded on this?
There's about 8800 hours in a year, but you're asleep for 1/3 of that so call it 6000 hours. You can get 5 years of continuous video of your life on a device the size of a paperback book. If you can compress the video of your mundane activities, such as driving to/from work or waiting in line, only
One thing I'm wondering is about changing form factors. For SSDs, the current NVMe form factors and such make sense. However, HDDs need a new form factor. 2.5" HDDs are pretty much abandoned with the last space increase to 6 TB happening a year or two ago. 3.5" HDDs really need more height to allow for more disks to be stacked or more room to place platters.
Maybe we need to bring back the 5.25" full height form factor? It obviously would not work with the 1-3 rack unit systems, so the drives would have
that's going to take _forever_ to scan for corruption
Well let's see...
Today they offer 32TB drives on SATA 6gpbs... If that is 'acceptable' then reading the entire drive takes at least 18 hours or so in theory. If same interface, then you'd be limited to 78 hours...
But wait, there's been talk about spinning platters being upgraded to NVME interfaces. Largely because "why accommodate spinning drives with a separate interface", but if this comes in, and could credibly in that timeframe have NVMe with PCIe 6, then the total drive read time could be reduced to
I was surprised to discover that you can purchase a 30TB hard drive for about half a grand.
That's 30,000 gigabytes, or about 30,000 hours of recorded video. How much of a person's life could be recorded on this?
There's about 8800 hours in a year, but you're asleep for 1/3 of that so call it 6000 hours. You can get 5 years of continuous video of your life on a device the size of a paperback book. If you can compress the video of your mundane activities, such as driving to/from work or waiting in line, only
One thing I'm wondering is about changing form factors. For SSDs, the current NVMe form factors and such make sense. However, HDDs need a new form factor. 2.5" HDDs are pretty much abandoned with the last space increase to 6 TB happening a year or two ago. 3.5" HDDs really need more height to allow for more disks to be stacked or more room to place platters.
Maybe we need to bring back the 5.25" full height form factor? It obviously would not work with the 1-3 rack unit systems, so the drives would have