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by jacquesm 4050 days ago
The 14 fold increase in capacity in one generation is incredible. There is still quite a revolution going on in storage. Any bets on whether the next generation will still contain spinning media?
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I don't believe spinning disk is long for this world. 6TB SSD drives are already out, the price just needs to be driven down. Much lower power consumption at idle is a side benefit.
When you say out, do you mean there is actually one for sale that I could buy today?
Looks like there will be one in two months, from a company called Fixstars; the price estimate given in the article (which it calls optimistic) is $1800-$2400.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/205362-massive-6tb-ssd-hi...

It's not just about the price and the storage. It's also how reliable they are. A 6tb ssd which fails after 6 month is worthless.