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Poster:
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Javik
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July 10, 2009 09:33:47pm
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petabox
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I assume this forum is now obsolete
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This is now a very dead forum it seems. But storage seems to have taken off to insane heights following the development of perpendicular magnetic recording and the first drives in 2006.
We've gone from a mere 300 gigs of storage, up to, what? 2 TB in a 3.5 inch drive? Meanwhile pricing has crashed downward to what seem to be ridiculous depths.
It was only a few short years ago that I paid $350 for a 320 gig drive, then the largest drive available.
At this time NewEgg tells me that a 750 gig drive can be had for only $70, while a 1500 gig drive costs a mere $129.
This means my formerly ultra-expensive 320 gig drive is now worth about $25 or less, and the cost for the Archive to build a petabyte of storage has gone down by a factor of about twelve in only 3 years.
And what's more, we still have a ways to go before perpendicular recording runs out of gas. It seems feasible for a 5 TB drive to eventually exist, in only a few more years. If big half-height 5.25" drives were still being made, we'd already be at 10 TB per drive or so.
It appears our past discussions of multi-drive SATA arrays and SAS extenders is a joke at this point, not really worth bothering with due to the utter cheapness of the storage technology.
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Will the last person in this forum please turn the lights out?
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