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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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Samsung’s 4TB SSD is built to replace your hard drive

It’s not hard to get a capacious solid-state drive if you’re running a server farm, but everyday users still have to be picky more often than not: either you get a roomy-but-slow spinning hard drive or give up that capacity in the name of a speedy SSD. Samsung may have finally delivered a no-compromise option, however. It’s introducing a 4TB version of the 850 Evo that, in many cases, could easily replace a reasonably large hard drive. While it’s not the absolute fastest option (the SATA drive is capped at 540MB/s sequential reads and 520MB/s writes), it beats having to resort to a secondary hard drive just to make space for your Steam game library. Of course, there’s a catch: the price. The 4TB 850 Evo will set you back a whopping $1, 500 in the US, so it’s largely reserved for pros and well-heeled enthusiasts who refuse to settle for rotating storage. Suddenly, the $700 2TB model seems like a bargain. Even if the 4TB version is priced into the stratosphere, though, it’s a good sign that SSDs are turning a corner in terms of viability. It might not be long before high-capacity SSDs are inexpensive enough that you won’t have to make any major sacrifices to put one in your PC. Source: PCWorld , Amazon

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