Western Digital announces 26TB hard drives and 15TB server SSDs

[thewayne]

WOW. WD did a bunch of new product announcements yesterday, these were perhaps the biggies.

From the article: "The 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 drives use tech called shingled magnetic recording, or SMR, to boost the amount of data that can fit on each platter, at the expense of performance." Interesting. I was unaware of this SMR tech. Cool stuff!

An article on Ars from late January said that Seagate and WD drives in the 20 TB area ran around $600. I've always wanted a wireless SAN in my house for near backup and storage, one of these mirrored to a second would be perfectly adequate at a fairly low cost.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/western-digital-announces-26tb-hard-drives-and-15tb-server-ssds/

Comments

[disneydream06]

But are they able to get the chips for all this? lol......
Hugs, Jon

[armiphlage]

At work, we have electronic component suppliers pushing out deliveries over 900 days into the future. And I work for a large multinational with significant purchasing power.

In 1995, I was manufacturing on a RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) system that used multiple hard drives linked together to create reliable mass storage for banks. Our system cost $10,000, and provided 1 GB of storage. I though nobody would ever be able to fill it.


In 2005, I purchased a SD card to put in my Palm Pilot to let me watch videos on the bus as I went to work. It cost $135, and had 1 GB of storage. I thought I never would be able to fill it.

Now I want one of these 26 TB hard drives, even though I don't see how I will ever be able to fill it.

[thewayne]

2005, do you recall what model Palm Pilot you were using?  I started with a Palm III in the '90s, used a Vx later, then something else that was a POS when the company started self-destructing.  I later switched to an iPod Touch after a Dell WinCE box proved futile, and that moved me into the iPhone architecture which I absolutely love. I wish I could go back in time and document the networks that I managed working for the state '88-92 and the police dept from '92-'01.  It would be interesting to see how much space I managed.

[disneydream06]

LOL...........

[silveradept]

Wow. Those are some seriously awesome storage capacities. I want, but I also have a sneaking suspicion that I would have to upgrade all of my machines to be able to actually use, provision, and access them. (I'm still running on single TB drives for many of my machines, except the USB drives, which have much better storage. 20+ TB of storage would be very helpful in a few drives to make me feel like I'd never fill it up. (And that I could use for backups, even though I should also have off-site backups.)

[thewayne]

The flip side of this is that as manufacture of these increases, it should push down the price of, say, 10 TB drives making a RAID of 4 or 5 10 TBs practically affordable.