Adding a little heat could give result in ~40 TB hard drives in a few years - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Forumaster;42496680]Just like HDDs, SSDs will be made affordable. Remember, shit used to be like this: [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img822/1231/10mbharddrive.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Finally now I can have enough space for Crysis 0.01

There was a thread quite similar to this just over a year back, one guy hypothesized that we could be using salt molecules to store over 200 TB within the next decade - It's also worth noting that he calculated that the highest possible density of information you could reach is around 57,000 PB per centimetre cubed - or the entire internet, with room to breathe. You probably could download ~all the porn~ but other than that I couldn't think of a way to even get close to filling 200TB [editline]12th October 2013[/editline] kinda wanna keep this post so that in 10 years I can read it and laugh at how quaint technology now is compared to then

[QUOTE=Kondor;42502705]who gives a shit about mechanical hard drives anymore[/QUOTE] People who need 4 TB of storage but can't drop 5 grand on a drive?

[QUOTE=Forumaster;42502861]People who need 4 TB of storage but can't drop 5 grand on a drive?[/QUOTE] Or people who just don't care about the kind of speed/lifetime ratio that SSDs provide.

Still using a 500GB drive for almost a decade now. I'd be all over SSD's if the price drops to something acceptable. Saw a video of someone who had hooked up several SSD's to a single computer (Not sure what it was called, raid setup?) and it loaded programs super fast. It was rather beautiful. I'm curious where this 'little bit of heat' will take hard drives.

It's alright, an nvidia card can easily be the heat source!

[QUOTE=Buck.;42503273]It's alright, an nvidia card can easily be the heat source![/QUOTE]Why are these jokes still a thing. We're not on Fermi anymore.

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;42505664]Why are these jokes still a thing. We're not on Fermi anymore.[/QUOTE] Nvidia still gets hot

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;42505907]Nvidia still gets [B]ME [/B]hot[/QUOTE] fixed??

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;42505907]Nvidia still gets hot[/QUOTE] All GPUs get hot. nVidia GPUs stopped getting excessively hot ages ago.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;42496302]I don't think I could ever fill 40tb of HD space.[/QUOTE] About a decade ago I had a 55gb hard drive in my computer and I would have thought that about the ~120gb or so that was standard at the time. Now I have 2TB that could easily be fiiled up if I didn't maintain it with a certain level of free space. To think I couldn't fill 40TB would be naive.

My first computer was like a gateway with 256MB of ram and a 16MB onboard graphics card, and like 16GB of harddrive space or something. i played mta vice city and world of warcraft on it :v: [editline].[/editline] oh yeah and windows ME

[QUOTE=TheJoker;42496302]I don't think I could ever fill 40tb of HD space.[/QUOTE] If you do any sort of digital design or related arts, its not hard to see. I use 32GB camera cards, and every event I take photos for usually ends up filling the card. It would only take a few months to fill up a 1TB drive.. If you did video I imagine it would go MUCH faster