bit of hard drive news

[Pugsport]

well seems that there will soon big some big storage format 3.5" hard drives around

A western digital company have just released a 6tb drive

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/04/helium_drives_from_hgst/

 

[HIBred]

Helium?

 

[DamageINC]

 

[NickHouston]

I'd stay away from mechanical harddrives over 1-2TB atm. I heard theres been a lot of failures with them.

 

[PrestoN]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storag...lease_8TB_SSD_Next_Year_16TB_SSD_in_2016.html

 

[stevo]

Meh http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/05/05/sony-creates-record-breaking-185tb-tape-for-data-storage lol

 

[DamageINC]

I would never trust my data to one very large HDD. I have my important stuff (basically music) backed up on two different drives, and want to put it all onto a third.

 

[TheDude]

Neurogrid. Standford.