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Re: HDD capacity stagnation

From	Arno <me@privacy.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: HDD capacity stagnation
Date	2012-01-30 22:54 +0000
Message-ID	<9oolcjFkklU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Tom Del Rosso <td_03@verizon.net.invalid> wrote:

> Capacity seems to be progressing very slowly.  We were stuck at 2TB for the 
> longest time (a lot longer than we were stuck at 528MB) but when the gates 
> opened we got 3TB, and not 8TB.  Is there another obstacle?

The technology is at its limits. 8TB does not make ecconomic
sense, it would not fit standard HDD case sizes and it would
take forever due to slow interfaces. It would also be very
expensive. As to size progression, why would you expect
8TB? Sizes did never increase in tsucha  large step.

Arno
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HDD capacity stagnation "Tom Del Rosso" <td_03@verizon.net.invalid> - 2012-01-30 15:12 -0500
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 08:29 +1100
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-30 22:54 +0000
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Tom Del Rosso" <td_03@verizon.net.invalid> - 2012-01-31 18:31 -0500
      Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-01 05:37 +0000
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2012-02-01 07:32 +1100
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2012-01-31 18:55 -0500
      Re: HDD capacity stagnation Joe Kotroczo <kotroczo@mac.com> - 2012-02-01 11:27 +0100
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation DevilsPGD <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> - 2012-01-31 18:05 -0800
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 14:35 +1100
      Re: HDD capacity stagnation DevilsPGD <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> - 2012-01-31 21:32 -0800
        Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 16:58 +1100
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2012-02-01 11:30 -0600
      Re: HDD capacity stagnation DevilsPGD <boogabooga@crazyhat.net> - 2012-02-01 20:15 -0800
        Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-02 05:44 +0000
          Re: HDD capacity stagnation David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-02-02 08:51 +0100
        Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 13:20 +1100
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation rb <rb.57942z@no.email.invalid> - 2012-01-31 11:56 -0600
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2012-02-02 16:47 -0600
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-06 22:23 +0800
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-06 19:10 +0000
      Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Tom Del Rosso" <td_03@verizon.net.invalid> - 2012-02-06 14:32 -0500
        Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 08:36 +0000
  Re: HDD capacity stagnation Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2012-02-07 11:48 -0600
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Tom Del Rosso" <td_03@verizon.net.invalid> - 2012-02-07 13:17 -0500
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 07:04 +1100
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 22:30 +0000
      Re: HDD capacity stagnation Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-02-08 11:19 +0100
        Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-09 08:13 +0000
          Re: HDD capacity stagnation DevilsPGD <boogabooga@crazyhat.net> - 2012-02-09 16:04 -0800
            Re: HDD capacity stagnation Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-10 17:48 +0000
              Re: HDD capacity stagnation DevilsPGD <boogabooga@crazyhat.net> - 2012-02-10 11:14 -0800
    Re: HDD capacity stagnation Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2012-02-12 06:23 +1100

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