Roadmap suggests hard drive storage will exceed 100TB by 2025

John Williamson

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The Advanced Storage Technology Consortium has released its latest report which predicts mechanical disk drives will skyrocket to 100TB by 2025. Data use has risen exponentially over the last few years due to 4k video and megatextures in newer game engines. Back in September, HGST unveiled a 10TB 3.5” hard drive which implements shingled magnetic recording technology to increase the capacity without adding to the number of total platters.

Even though capacities have expanded to 10TB using this process, it seems like the limits of storage expansion are already being reached.

Currently, mechanical drives utilize perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) techniques which operate at a maximum areal density of 0.86Tbpsi. Future storage devices are destined to use heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) which should, according to Forbes, increase the annual areal density growth rate from 15% to 30%.

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A longer term plan, involves the heated-dot magnetic recording (HDMR) system which combines bit patterned magnetic recording and HAMR to dramatically improve the areal density to 10. As a result, it is realistic to theorize that we should have 100TB drives on the market by year 2025.

This report may signify that standard disk drive storage won’t be entirely replaced by solid state drives for a long time because the demand for data is so high. Another factor to take into consideration is the way we are using data with a greater reliance on cloud storage. By 2025, it’s not too far-fetched to suggest that the entertainment industry might replace digital downloads with on-demand streams. Nevertheless, the future is uncertain and consumers are undoubtedly using vast sums of data that need to be stored in potentially more than one place.

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Yup. The human species are by nature a greedy lot, in fact greedy may not be the correct term, lets just say they like an overabundance of everything and manufacturers are only too happy to feed their insatiable appetites because they themselves aren't allergic to healthy profits.
 
Yeah... lets wait and see. I still remember those Intel roadmaps some 12-14 years ago. We expected 10ghz cpus by the end of the decade.

Yep! I remember that prediction - it's a shame how slow the advancement of consumer CPUs have been. Still irks me that the VRM on my 4770K is done on the chip itself.
 
Yeah... lets wait and see. I still remember those Intel roadmaps some 12-14 years ago. We expected 10ghz cpus by the end of the decade.
They kind of are, once you add up the work load of each core. By your logic though; 8-bit processing is the way to go, instead of 8x the bandwidth at 64-bit. What difference does it make if the processor can operate at 10Ghz, if the equivalent can be processed on parallel paths at lower frequencies. That's not a fair example, unless we decide to package multiple drives in one shell. Somehow I don't think that will be necessary, since the same factors that forced CPU's into multicore is of no concern here (at least not yet).
 
Don't get me wrong, 3ghz quad core HT cpu's from 2010 were better than anything with "Pentium4 like" single core architecture at 10ghz would be. But when you walk on the edge with laws of nature by your side, those things become almost impossible to predict 15 years in the future. Sadly it's not 1995 anymore
 
Yeah... lets wait and see. I still remember those Intel roadmaps some 12-14 years ago. We expected 10ghz cpus by the end of the decade.

Yep! I remember that prediction - it's a shame how slow the advancement of consumer CPUs have been. Still irks me that the VRM on my 4770K is done on the chip itself.

Shooot ..... I still haven't gotten over the cost of my first 16 bit upgrade on my old Apple !
 
Heck a HDD company think it was WD said by 2016 we will have 60TB HDD's so lets hope by that logic that by 2025 we have far bigger then 100TB HDD's....
 
Well theres a road map with all PC products, and I am sure it is not just, we expect to be here at this point it in time, its also, worked out with a, how slowly do we update this to increase revenue, we have the 10ghz octo core and we could release the 100tb hdd but... we need to Milk It! ( now go play your "in utero" album )

The problem with 100tb hdd on a consumer level is, if a drive dies, you lose a shed load of data. We are hoarders. I would love 800tb raided. Mwahahaha. Think I could about fill that in a year or two.
But they would have to do away with intelli power drives, or make them 100% more... no screw them they suck.
 
Harddrives have made little progress cost wise the last years. I bought a 1TB 7200rpm Samsung drive for 55 euro 4 years ago. When I check now a 1TB 7200rpm drive STILL costs 55 euro. Not one euro cheaper in 4 years! At work most HP office PC's we use are still delivered with a 500GB drive and of those 500 gigs most only use about 40 gigs (W7 + Office etc). Word documents haven't really gotten bigger.

For home users it's different (me included). I too have 8TB NAS which I fill up with pictures (RAW+jpeg eats lots of space), music and movies. But I could dump allot of that info because really, how many times do you rewatch these films, certainly when you have always new stuff to see.
 
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