HGST becomes first to introduce 10TB hard drive in 3.5" form factor

I still remember my 2gb HDD I was so excited... I'm feeling rather old right now.

Was starting with 240-260 MB drive, that has failed after 4-5 months, as a complete series of that drives was faulty.... remember wingcommander on 12 3,5 disk, as what the hell is it for a game :-D

I must be ancient then!! sigh I remember my first real PC my 386 DX-40 with 130mb maxtor hard drive, 1mb ram, 1/2mb Viewsonic Video card no cdrom/dvd/blueray I did have my trusty 1.44" floppy drive and 5.25" floppy drive no sound card but had my neighbor put a volume control and headphone adapter so I could jam to mod music lol I remember the first sound card I got I cried when I heard Epic Pinball Music start playing was the first I ever heard thru my sound blaster lol
 
3d nand is already smashing thru a lot of those barriers, greater endurance and bit density, Tamsung has already gone from 24 to 32 cells,Home storage will be all ssd when online comms are fast enogh perhaps gigabit or 10gbit will fast enough,
Helium is running out say the Chicken-littles! Neon and Argon and Radon aren't tho,
 
Just think you can pick up flash drives for little to nothing, that out perform any of the 3.5" drives of the 90's. Looking at all the advancements in SSD, I can vividly see the end of HDD storage. It may take another 20 years but HDD will see end-of-life.

I am not so sure. SSD is still a lot more expesive then HD. Grated there cost have come down to a point that more and more laptops come with an SSD or a combo of SSD and HHD. The only way I can see if happening is if SSD can get it price point close to HHD per byte. Granted it can happen just look at CRT vs LCD. So in 20 years maybe SSD will replace HHD then again in 20 years Holo storage will be replacing SSD.
 
A little off topic of HDD but I remember buying a 4Mb stick of Ram for $1600 :D
My first RAM buy was an upgrade for a Kim-1; about $240 for 8K - that's Kilobytes. 4 Megabytes would have cost $120,000. Of course, the power supply to run 500 of those boards would dim the house lights - probably 100 amps. Wow, have we come a long way. 10 TB drives - that's 500,000 times the size of the AT drive of 1984, only 30 years ago. One drive holds more than all the 20 MB IBM PC/AT drives sold that year by a wide margin - maybe more than all the drives (PC-class) sold in total to that point.
 
Getting "old" myself. Just had my 30th birthday last month.

My first "computer", the Amiga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga), is still under my bed. :)
 
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