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  • "Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB tofollow"

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Fri Sep 3 16:11:07 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    "Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow"

    https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/western_digital_unveils_20tb_optinand/

    "New flash-and-platter architecture offers 'breakthrough in storage that
    works differently,' firm claims"

    I wonder if the 50 TB drive will come in a 3.5 inch form factor ? And
    what the price will be ?

    Lynn

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  • From Mark Perkins@mark@none.invalid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Wed Sep 15 17:45:51 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:11:07 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    "Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow"

    https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/western_digital_unveils_20tb_optinand/

    "New flash-and-platter architecture offers 'breakthrough in storage that >works differently,' firm claims"

    I wonder if the 50 TB drive will come in a 3.5 inch form factor ? And
    what the price will be ?

    I'll take a pair. I don't really care about the form factor as long as my
    PC(s) have a compatible interface. I suppose the initial price will be $unobtainium but it should eventually come down, especially when they start
    to focus on whatever comes next, perhaps a 100TB version.

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  • From Pedro Valdez@pedro1492@lycos.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Tue Sep 28 02:56:22 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 5:11:16 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow"

    https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/western_digital_unveils_20tb_optinand/

    Interested in this paragraph:
    "It used to be, not that many generations ago, that you could write 10,000 times before needing to refresh sectors on either side," Western Digital engineering fellow David Hall explained in an interview for the company blog. "And then as we pushed the tracks closer and closer together, it went to 100, then 50, then 10, and now for some sectors, it's as low as six."
    Are they talking about non-shingled drives?
    So if I have a Toshiba 14 TB drive, it needs sectors refreshed sooner or later? --- Synchronet 3.19a-Linux NewsLink 1.113