There’s lots of demand for large drives, it’s mostly for enterprise drives though.
You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 days ago
There are 32 and 64TB enterprise SSDs out there now too.
Peffse@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I refuse to believe there isn’t much demand for it when we have MicroSD cards approaching 2TB.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I do think the demand decreased in the past decade. The average consumer has their photos and documents in the cloud and signs up to streaming services for movies, shows, and music.
evidences@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But on the opposite end games are only getting bigger and fast internet is still semi expensive so having large drives would be beneficial to people that want to keep multiple games installed on their PC/console.
Peffse@lemmy.world 3 days ago
fair point, even the MicroSD market would target the mobile user and not so much a desktop.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 days ago
Mostly the photography market as far as I know, those raw images take up a lot of space.