Hello everyone! I'm really just a lurker that watches the youtube videos for their information and of course entertainment value, but today I'd like the forum's opinion and even the staff of Teksyndicate.
I've been tasked with writing a paper on where we're at with consumer storage devices and where it may be going in the future. The present is pretty obvious because there's endless information on what is available as well as the more recent breakthroughs. However, I'm thinking more down the line past SSDs which is more or less the most recent development in this field.
I've heard about Holographic storage as well as Quantum Storage. Holographic was fairly straight forward and easy to understand, however, I'm struggling with the quantum storage concept. Could someone explain it to me in more layman's terms?
So what do you think everyone? Do you see our HDDs and SSDs being replaced with holographic and quantum storage? Or do you see a different future ahead of us?
I'm hoping to get as much input as I can in an effort to learn about new technologies and see things from other perspectives. Also it's my first time really using/navigating through the forum, but after using it for a couple minutes I really began to like the features and styling! Keep up the good work it shows! Thank you all for reading my post and replying if you have.
SSDs are probably going to be the main consumer storage solutions within a few years as the price per gb continues to go down
Archival Storage will most likely utilize crystals, such as the 185TB tape storage solution sony was working on, I think toshiba has something like a 128tb tape as well
Past that, I've got no clue, bunch of stuff is probably going to happen
Tape is long term data storage for archival purposes, it isn't usable for consumer storage.
If the scope of your project is the next couple of decades, count on SSDs starting to reign on mass storage, and HDDs slightly dying off.
In the future, anything can happen, the quantum and holographic storage is a concept/theory and isn't really worth writing about. Unless you are writing some super future thing. DNA storage is also a thing, though highly unstable at the moment.
Right i've heard about Sony's endeavours into Tape storage. Bringing up archival storage will definitely go well with my paper. After some more research it does seem like for the foreseeable future SSDs will reign champion.
What are your thoughts on NVMe? I was reading how it has better utilization of cores, but couldnt find any comparison numbers against SATA or SAS
I'm struggling to understand what it is too, I feel like it's just raided SSDs in one device that goes to PCIe. But they make it sound like it's something else
okay, so the idea is that you have a particle that has a negitive or positive charge and this is in a field where we can manipulate the particle and read the particle, and how this differs from spinning rust is where you can see and manipulate all the particles, that's where the weird quantum stuff shows up at the door