Seagate plans to offer 14TB and 16TB HDDs within the next 18 months

[WYP]

Seagate plans to offer 14TB and 16TB HDDs to customers within the next 18 months, with hopes to release a 20TB hard drive by 2020.



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[NeverBackDown]

Holy moly. No need for a NAS server anymore!

 

[WYP]

Holy moly. No need for a NAS server anymore!

Problem is that you still need a backup, etc, so maybe one on your system and another in a external NAS backup.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Problem is that you still need a backup, etc, so maybe one on your system and another in a external NAS backup.

I wasn't being totally serious
Yeah you need a backup still. And lots of money. Lots and lots of it...

 

[Dawelio]

Imagine all the porn that people will put on those... Is it even possible to fill it though?

 

[Greenback]

Imagine all the porn that people will put on those... Is it even possible to fill it though?

Give me a couple of them and a few months I'd get there and it wouldn't be any porn to old for that

 

[Dawelio]

Give me a couple of them and a few months I'd get there and it wouldn't be any porn to old for that

What on earth do you keep to get TB of storage?... I have an 1TB M.2 SSD in my system and that's it lol. Not even using 50% of it either.

 

[Greenback]

What on earth do you keep to get TB of storage?... I have an 1TB M.2 SSD in my system and that's it lol. Not even using 50% of it either.

Steam folder is near on a TB, pictures of my son since he was born, uplay, origin, wow, some music and films

 

[Dawelio]

Steam folder is near on a TB, pictures of my son since he was born, uplay, origin, wow, some music and films

Don't you stream?...

 

[Greenback]

Don't you stream?...

Nope I get films from not always genuine places

 

[Daiyus]

Don't you stream?...

Some of us prefer not relying on the Internet connection being solid for everything.

As for the drives, damn I wish I could afford a pair for my NAS. I wouldn't have to worry about storage space for years. Even if I replaced my entire DVD/BD library with UHD I could store copies of it all on there.