Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

It doesn’t really matter, the current limitations are not so much data density at rest, but getting the data in and out at a useful speed. We breached the capacity barrier long ago with disk arrays.

SATA will no longer be improved, we now need u.2 designs for data transport that are designed for storage. This exists, but needs to filter down through industrial application to get to us plebs.

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