News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Meanwhile HGST predicts global information storage to grow to 447ZB by 2020.
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Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
Well except we are talking storage so its actually 1000 Exabytes and of course only 990 after formatting :-)
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
Maybe Seagate should make 2016 the year of the mechanically sound and data preserving hard drive.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Originally Posted by
aidanjt
Maybe Seagate should make 2016 the year of the mechanically sound and data preserving hard drive.
Now THAT would be progress !...for Seagate.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Originally Posted by
Jenny_Y8S
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.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Originally Posted by
aidanjt
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? ;)
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Originally Posted by
ca197
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!
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crossy
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 ;)
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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)
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
"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!!
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
"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.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Originally Posted by
crossy
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.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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.
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
I bet windows would have a hard time de-fragmenting the drive ;)
Re: News - Seagate says that 2016 will be "the year of the Zettabyte"
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Originally Posted by
MrComputerSaint
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 :D
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Originally Posted by
aidanjt
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? :wallbash:
