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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	2025-12-06 05:49 +1000
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/2025 5:46 AM, Woozy Song wrote:
>> Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>> Do NOT throw away your older drives with capacity less than 2TB. You 
>>> might not be able to buy them again. I doubt whether manufacturers 
>>> would ever produce low capacity but reliable, resilient traditional 
>>> hard drives.
>> 
>> Just had a spring clean, threw out anything less than 500 GB. 500 GB is 
>> still enough to be useful.
> 
> Anything less than 500 GB could be 30 years old.

Your memory of HDD capacities 30 years ago is extremely optimistic!

I'm yet to find a personal use for >500GB storage, and don't use
any drives bigger than that. I did recently test and sell most of
my stash of 40GB IDE drives made in 2004 on Ebay for $15-$20 each,
and they went fairly quickly.

> I am surprised that old of a drive would still turn.

I'm posting from a 30 year old PC with a corresponding 2GB HDD
installed and still working fine daily. Although of course I have
had many younger HDDs fail on me too.

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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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