Toshiba to release 26TB HDDs this year, 30TB to come later

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

A Business Wire press release (thanks Tom’s Hardware) outlines the company’s vision for the next five years. The ambitions include releasing a 26TB HDD in about 4 months time as well as a 30TB drive in 2023, followed by a whopping 40TB or more drive in five years time. Toshiba’s current high capacity drives cap out at 18TB, so this is going to be a significant step up.

The first step in this roadmap is a 20TB drive not too dissimilar from Toshiba’s current 18, allowing the company to catch up on sizes currently offered by other brands like Western Digital. The main difference between this drive and the previous 18TB model is that this will install an extra platter bringing the count from 9 to 10, and allowing for more storage. This will be a great base to test the company’s new storage technology without having to make something brand new.

In the future storage won’t be an issue anymore

https://www.pcgamer.com/toshiba-to-release-26tb-hdds-this-year-30tb-to-come-later/

[Mad Scientist]

The real question "how much is this going to cost?"

[Fostin4]

These seem like NAS drives rather than your average consumer drive we use, so it will be very expensive considering their patents.

[davidb11]

Still waiting for my Petabyte drive. :P

[Rio]

30tb is probably more storage than every pc I've had combined.

[my new friend]

20TB models are already out there. That's more than good enough for my servers. 10x20TB raid5

[Z]

SSD? No?

[my new friend]

Z🌱 の投稿を引用：

SSD? No?

No. HDD
We'll see SSDs get far larger than 50TB in the future.

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Ssds with that size cost probably the same like a gaming pc

[Rio]

I'd be happy with just a 10tb ssd

[MinionJoe]

Mr. Gentlebot の投稿を引用：

The real question "how much is this going to cost?"

The REAL real question is "How long will this drive work before total failure?"

Last Toshiba HDD drive I had didn't last a month.

[my new friend]

Mr Jt の投稿を引用：

Ssds with that size cost probably the same like a gaming pc

Prices will always slowly creep down.

[Z]

⛧Coeur du diable⛧ の投稿を引用：

I'd be happy with just a 10tb ssd

[Affronter]

If only Toshiba made video cards

[Elucidator]

Both Seagate and Western Digital have this... program where 1/5th disks they release will die before 5 years (within 3 usually), half of them make it to just over 4 years and only very little beyond.
This tactic got these companies rich.

I used to buy drives that last more than 10 years from specific brands, which obviously-- got bought over by either Seagate of WD, because making trash sells unfortunately
Currently Toshiba is the only company I trust makes good HDDs.
well.... unless you buy the very expensive, IBM HDDs from WD. (which they sell for over 200 a piece, and these used to cost a lot less when they were in Hitachi/IBM's hands.)
e.e;
yes, its primarily consumers who receive early dead hdds. e.e; no, they are diffidently supposed to last for 10 years at least, hdds I mean (even if you use the pc daily and it is your main drive)
Yes, windows made them last shorter with some updates (just disable crap like superfetching), helps a bit. but it is mainly mechanical how these things break e.e;

and if you complain, they comment "We test all of these drives before shipping"
e.g. its by design that these things break early x.x;

Edit: keep in mind only toshiba seagate and wd are left. This makes the market kinda... like this unfortunately.
you're practically forced into this mess now, because a lot of people weren't noticing these things.
but if you get a disk I recommend toshiba (due to business practises)

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26tb such an odd number for an hdd.

If the drive dies there goes 30tb worth of data down the drain. That is why I don't buy nothing over 2tb.