News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"

[HEXUS]

Meanwhile HGST predicts global information storage to grow to 447ZB by 2020.

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[ca197]

Well except we are talking storage so its actually 1000 Exabytes and of course only 990 after formatting :-)

[aidanjt]

Maybe Seagate should make 2016 the year of the mechanically sound and data preserving hard drive.

[DemonHighwayman]

Maybe Seagate should make 2016 the year of the mechanically sound and data preserving hard drive.

Now THAT would be progress !...for Seagate.

[edzieba]

Sounds 100% accurate to me:

Because reliably predicating patterns of internet usage two years in advance is incredibly easy. Everyone knows what the next big thing will be, and 4K streaming adoption and broadband rollout speeds are locked down years in advance.

Unless such things are not known in advance...

In that case, maybe this is just a big or marketing fluff? People don't do that do they? Surly not!

Total traffic is reasonably predictable year-on-year. See Cisco's VNI for a more exhaustive analysis.

[crossy]

Maybe Seagate should make 2016 the year of the mechanically sound and data preserving hard drive.

Never had a problem myself, most problems been with the old Deathstars, sorry Deskstars. Actually last disk I bought was a Seagate SSHD, which made the WD Black it replaced look like it was connected over USB. And the Seagate was a lot quieter to boot.

Am I the only one to wonder why the file sharing segment is so large, does RIAA know?

[tribaljet]

Well except we are talking storage so its actually 1000 Exabytes and of course only 990 after formatting :-)

Cheapskates... stealing our storage space for decades!

Never had a problem myself, most problems been with the old Deathstars, sorry Deskstars. Actually last disk I bought was a Seagate SSHD, which made the WD Black it replaced look like it was connected over USB. And the Seagate was a lot quieter to boot.

Am I the only one to wonder why the file sharing segment is so large, does RIAA know?

Ah, Deskstars... Well, so far I've seen a rather high percentage of Seagate drives have interface, sector and calibration issues, with just a couple years use.

Well, P2P is used by a large number of artists, not to mention *nix distros. Perhaps (only perhaps) there might be some less legit uses of such technological wonder, though And RIAA MAFIAA is certainly aware of such

[MrComputerSaint]

It might be for the bog businesses, certainly not for home users. Obviously.

I can't remember having an issue with Seagate drives, although I use a lot of WD drives myself.

[devBunny]

And there was me looking forward to buying a couple of zettabyte drives a year or two later when the price comes down. Damn. ;o)

[devBunny]

"TweakTown relates the capacity of a Zettabyte to the Terabyte, a very familiar measure in the desktop PC world; "1PB (Petabyte) is 1024TB (Terabyte), and 1EX (Exabyte) is 1024PB, so 1ZB is an insane 1024EB".

Let's look at it differently:

Zetta = Exa * Kilo
Exa = Peta * Kilo
Peta = Tera * Kilo

Thus Zetta = Tera * Kilo * Kilo * Kilo
And Kilo * Kilo * Kilo = Giga

So it's like having a 1 terabyte drive where every *byte* is a gigabyte!!

[devBunny]

"1PB (Petabyte) is 1024TB (Terabyte), and 1EX (Exabyte) is 1024PB, so 1ZB is an insane 1024EB, which is just scary".

It's tempting to say that it's actually the terrorbyte, ha ha, that's scary but in fact it's the terror-boot that stops your heart and drains the blood from your face - when it tells you that your drive is no longer recognised.

[aidanjt]

Actually last disk I bought was a Seagate SSHD

I consider getting one of those from time to time, because conceptually they're very attractive. But then I look at the current drive failure stats and nope right out of there.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Its all awesome they keep making the HDDs bigger but pricing per GB has barely reached that before the floods years ago,and the HDD companies took advantage of the situation to jack up prices and reduce the length of the warranties.

[MrComputerSaint]

I bet windows would have a hard time de-fragmenting the drive

[crossy]

It might be for the bog businesses, certainly not for home users. Obviously.

"Bog businesses" - are you taking the urine? (didn't want to run foul of the moderators by using the p-word that rhymes with "miss"). LOL

I consider getting one of those from time to time, because conceptually they're very attractive. But then I look at the current drive failure stats and nope right out of there.

"Failure stats" - are these on the net somewhere I could look at them? My SSHD is my user drive so if it's going to be flaky then I'd appreciate the heads up. That said, I remember much abuse being levelled at the Samsung 1TB F series drives and the one I had was actually pretty darned good.

Okay, Zettabytes, big deal ... now how the heck are you going to back that little lot up?

[DanceswithUnix]

Never had a problem myself, most problems been with the old Deathstars, sorry Deskstars

Deskstar problem was with a drive sat there spinning whilst idle for too long. I had one that lasted years, you need to work harder to keep it busy

I did have one of those in a desktop machine that died though. It was replaced under warranty with one that had fixed firmware to move the head about every now and then when idle and that is I think still in a drawer somewhere as it still works but is now too small to be very useful. The one that just worked was in an always active server.