What Will Become of Hard Disk Drives in the Future?

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What Will Become of Hard Disk Drives in the
Future?

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One question a lot of people have is what is
going to happen to hard disk drives (HDDs) now
that we have solid state drives (SSDs). One might
assume that SSDs are going to displace HDDs much
like DVDs did to CDs and Blu-rays have done to
DVDs.

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Before you start buying up all the HDDs on the
market to have a supply in the future, you need
to know HDDs are not going anywhere.

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First of all, the cost for high capacity SSDs is
quite expensive once you start taking about
terabytes of storage space. Many people and
businesses still cannot afford to cross over that
threshold.

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Not surprisingly, HDDs with larger terabyte
drives tend to cost less and fit the budgets of
most people and businesses better.

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Next, SSD is still a fairly new technology. This
means the costs of the technology have not
equalized and started to decline yet. It could be
another ten years before prices on SSDs become
more competitive with HDDs.

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Another reason HDDs are not going anywhere is
because two of the biggest HDD manufacturers have
released information on new HDDs in development.
Both Western Digital and Seagate have announced
they are working on much bigger and faster HDDs.

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Currently, you can find 8 TB, 10 TB, and 12 TB
HDDs, with plans on a 14 TB drive sometime later
this year. Both manufacturers have plans to keep
increasing the maximum drive space up to 40 TB
within the next five to seven years.

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Increased storage capacities is just half of what
is to come with HDDs. Both of these manufacturers
are also working on different ways to improve the
performance and speed of HDDs one of the big
selling points right now for SSDs.

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If these manufacturers can develop an effective
method for increasing speeds of HDDs, then they
will be even more competitive with SSDs.

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Currently, the platters within HDDs have
actuators arms on top and bottom which read and
write date to the platters. However, while all
the actuators do move in tandem with each other,
only one is actually writing to the platter at a
time.

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One possible method that is being explored is the
use of multiple read/write actuators.

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Using this method would allow for two (or more)
sets of actuators to be used to read and write
data simultaneously on the platters. This would
effectively double the speed of HDDs.

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This idea is not new, but has been impractical
for numerous years because of the costs to
develop it.

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With recent advances in technologies, now the
costs for the components to develop faster
processing HDDs has dropped. So it is no longer a
possibility, but something that is actually being
developed.

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Both the increased storage capacities and faster
speeds are great news for HDDs as they are given
a new lease on life. No matter whether you use
HDDs or SSDs, always remember to back-up your
data on a regular basis.

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