20TB hard drives, ready for 2020 thanks to glass

[OyaYansa]

Imagine being able to buy a 20 TB hard drive for the same price it can cost 1 TB today. It is possible, or rather will be around the year 2020, and all thanks to glass. Hoya Corp., a Japanese company that may have stuck with the key to making HDD hard drives with more storage capacity and cheaper, believes.

This technology already exists, although at the moment only applies to 2.5-inch hard drives used by laptops. The idea is also to apply it to the 3.5 ", so that they reach the HDD of more capacity, which equip the rest of desktop computers and still have much

The glass or glass would thus replace aluminum as the main component of hard disks. Not only are they much more rigid than traditional aluminum discs, they allow many more layers to be enclosed in the same space and thus increase storage capacity. And of course, more capacity in less space, lower price.

Today, HDDs remain the primary storage option on PCs. They are much cheaper than SSDs, although not as fast. This circumstance could change soon, especially if we realize that the solid state drives constantly lower prices, threatening the reign of 1 TB and 500 GB disks.

With hard disks of glass, the threat of SSD would be solved in the medium term, making them much more competitive in a market that is increasingly demanding more GB capacity. However, the problem for these components is that many users are no longer willing to have more capacity in exchange for less speed.

More and more are choosing to install an SSD, at least for the operating system and heavier programs. It is a trend that seems unstoppable, so the crystal HDD will only arrive in time to provide secondary storage.