The article says they are pushing for 20TB drives by 2020. That means they are saying 7 years from now we will be using the same technology but the drives will be larger. They are clearly talking about non-SSDs in the article.
SSDs are ok for now but they are still not even close to being reasonably priced. A 1TB SSD is like $650, completely gouged.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 15.5 ms ] threadI have a 300gb drive and it still has 180gb free. I have a ton of stuff backed up too and quite a few large apps/games.
With more things being "stored on the cloud" it surprises me that HD manufacturers go after space instead of speed/reliability.
SSDs are ok for now but they are still not even close to being reasonably priced. A 1TB SSD is like $650, completely gouged.
Furthers the model that "Cache is the new RAM, RAM is the new disk, disk is the new tape", especially big capacity ones like this.
ADDED: to get the most out of these drives, their non-atomic write nature needs to be exposed, here's a USENIX item on all that: http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/solutions-content/i...