We haven’t seen a major leap in a long time. A
trollingtripling of capacity at today’s prices would be huge!I also like trolling at these prices.
I’m surprised there aren’t a small range of full-height 8-platter 5.25" form factor drives, the kind that would be 1GB in like 1993, for the bragging rights for max-capacity-in-a-single-drive.
I imagine they’d have significant problems with heat. Friction with air/helium in drives today generates most of the heat, as far as I know. Making the platter area larger and increasing the number of platters both would create more friction and therefore more heat trapped without an efficient way of removing it. If they wanted to build a drive like that for bragging rights, they’d have to decrease friction by say spinning slower, which would drop the throughput.
I guess they could put a heat exchanger inside and have it piped to an external cooler of some sort. But then you’d need space for both. 😄
~24 years ago I had 2x 15k SCSI drives that were 3.5” wide but the full height of a 5.25” drive. For the time the things were fast as hell… they were also, however, hot as hell. So I got some large aluminum heat sinks and attached them to each side and made a 5.25” drive adapter out of aluminum. Since it was open to the front my case exhaust fans cooled the drives as it was the main intake for the case and it worked pretty darn well until I upgraded.
They could fit a lot more than 8 platters in a full height drive.
