Seagate's HDD roadmap teases 100TB drives by 2025

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Originally Posted by Iota

Where are you even seeing 60TB SSDs?

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Seagate announced one a couple of years ago. Wonder if they actually sold any.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016...st-hard-drive/

if 60TB is not enough try 100TB :https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/19/17140332/worlds-largest-ssd-nimbus-data-exadrive-dc100-100tb

Helium-filled drives still make me shudder, because you can't just stick them on a shelf as long term offline backup.

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Originally Posted by markzero

Helium-filled drives still make me shudder, because you can't just stick them on a shelf as long term offline backup.

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put an ornament on top of it then, it'll stop it floating off.

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Originally Posted by b0redom

That's great and all, but unless there's a massive leap in drive performance, rebuilding RAID arrays is going to take an age. I can see everyone having to run at least RAID-6, probably even higher to protect against double disk failures during a resilver.

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These won't be targeting home users. They will be targeting enterprises using web scale IO. Real world figures: 4TB HDD goes dead. Then 4TB of no longer Redundant Data is rehydrated to others in the cluster that's currently servicing clients using 70% I/O load in 20 minutes. Capacity of the storage pool drops by 4TB. Disk is replaced. Pool increases by 4TB. Cluster only had 16 Disks.

RAID is dead and has been in proper enterprise IT for a long time now. It's just some Infrastructure teams don't know it yet.