New hard disk tech demonstration shows potential for multi-layered granular media, with massive storage capacities coming in the future.

Man, I remember when someone on reddit got mad upvotes for saying “5tb hard drives don’t exist” in response to me, as the external 5tb hdd I was using sat 2ft away from me.

And here we are looking at the [BRAND] advertisement for 120TB drives.

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Come on man, 120gb HDDs don’t exist!

Well, they don’t exist. (yet)

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Do you mean “anymore”?

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I remember when I got my forst 120gb drive. I happily installed it on my win 2k and… bios didn’t like it, OS didn’t like it and read its capacity wrong. I forget if I used windows or linux but after I cut the drive into 2x60gb it worked great

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I was already sick of this shit the first time I saw a 1GB harddisk, a Quantum Bigfoot using a 5.25" form factor. Massive thing. Could fit a whole day of a comprehensive USENET feed.

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I’m pretty sure they were referring to how the more common sizes are 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 TB and so on. 6 is semi-common. 5 is relatively rare, so they probably didn’t realize they exist.

And any 8TB disk with bad blocks makes a fine 5TB disk.

I own a couple of 5TB drives. At the time when 8TB and above were rare and expensive, it wasn’t that strange.

Still rocking an Xbox one with a 4tb external drive. It’s got to be going on 10 years old at this point

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