Seagate Announces 16TB HDD
As a professional storage-system developer, my reaction to every announcement of larger disks is something close to horror. Capacity keeps increasing while performance remains darn near constant, so the gap between the two keeps getting wider. Yes, we can use flash to absorb the I&#x2F;O demand, treat disk more like tape, yadda yadda, but all of that takes significant effort. You do want your storage system to be <i>correct</i> despite the greater complexity of heterogeneous hardware, don&#x27;t you?<p>Looking on the bright side: infinite job security. Yay?