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Seagate wants to push huge 16TB HDD out the door in next 18 months

(credit: Seagate) Good news if you like big hard drives: Seagate announced on an earnings call yesterday ( as reported by PC World ) that it has both 14TB and 16TB versions of its helium-filled spinning hard drives in the pipeline for the next 18 months. A 12TB version of the drive is “being tested” and should be ready sooner rather than later. And the push for ever-higher capacities will continue after that—Seagate wants to have a 20TB drive ready by 2020, and it would like to push the minimum capacity for drives shipping in new PCs to 1TB. 500GB drives are typical in entry-level models these days. Seagate still slightly trails some of its competitors here—HGST beat Seagate to market with the 10TB version of its helium-filled hard drive, and HGST already has a 12TB version of the same drive on the market. But Seagate’s drives tend to be cheaper than HGST’s, and while HGST drives have lower failure rates according to Backblaze’s drive reliability data , Seagate’s reliability has greatly improved in recent years . Larger hard drives make it possible to increase the capacity of a server or a home NAS unit without actually needing more physical space. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ is officially set to wreck the internet in 2018

Everyone’s favorite game-related Disney movie (no, not Tron ) Wreck-It Ralph is set for a sequel that’s hitting the scene on March 9, 2018. This news probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone given the original’s massive success back in 2012, but it’s definitely a reason to get excited. Disney broke the news during a special livestream on Facebook today, announcing that it’s working on Wreck-It Ralph 2 , which will go beyond the confines of the arcade seen in the first movie and into the internet. There weren’t many additional details divulged to go on, but this could mean some interesting changes for both the film’s format and the type of game references we might see. It’s a bit of a wait for the sequel to hit theaters, but it’s just one in a long line of video game-focused films coming down the pipeline. For instance, the Minecraft film is arriving n 2019, and the Tetris film (now a trilogy) is planned to begin shooting next year. The future is rife with video game movies, but will they be any good? Via: VentureBeat

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‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ is officially set to wreck the internet in 2018