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Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible"

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From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible"
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Date	2025-11-29 07:37 +1000
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> It's an achievement, but dimensionally, it's getting further
> away from being practical (because the read channel isn't
> becoming any faster). If you needed to rescue the files on
> a drive that big, and transfer off to another drive that size,
> it's going to take days to do it.
> 
> And the purchase price per unit, is likely to cross a red line.
> They have to keep charging for it like toilet paper. And
> that means it could be $1200 and use 15W while writing (could
> benefit from some sort of airflow).

Those wouldn't be such an issue for datacentre applications though,
and these days I suspect they're driving the market for future
HDDs. RAID avoids needing to clone drives manually, and cost is
offset by needing fewer drives (and therefore less space, less
power consumption, ...).

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“Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-11-28 02:56 -0600
  Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-11-28 19:45 +0800
    Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-28 11:16 -0500
      Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-11-29 00:18 +0800
        Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-28 21:05 -0500
    Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-11-28 11:31 -0600
  Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-28 10:51 -0500
    Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-11-28 23:55 +0800
      Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2025-12-04 19:46 +0800
        Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-12-04 19:57 +0800
          Re: �Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory � 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible� Same Guy <was@another.address> - 2025-12-04 08:01 -0800
          Re: Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-12-08 20:20 -0500
        Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-05 12:57 -0600
          Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-06 05:49 +1000
            Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-12-05 19:12 -0500
            Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-12-06 14:17 +0800
              Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-06 22:35 -0600
            Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-06 22:38 -0600
              Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-12-07 00:06 -0500
                Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-08 20:17 -0600
          Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-12-05 22:44 -0600
          Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-12-06 14:20 +0800
            Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-12-06 22:34 -0600
      Re: Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-12-08 20:31 -0500
    Re: "Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory -- 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible" not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-29 07:37 +1000
  Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-11-28 12:24 -0600
    Re: �Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory � 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible� Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-11-28 13:37 -0600
      Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-28 21:32 -0500
      Re: �Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory � 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible� VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-11-29 02:18 -0600
        Re: “Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible” Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-11-29 04:24 -0500

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