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... At this rate of capacity growth, HD's will be history in 2-3 years with the 2-5 TB SSD's.
And hopefully the US government will have a bit more advance storage capacity:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/federal-charges-dropped-against-fugitive-doctor-because-too-184830159.html
^^ This is just the expected result of the last process size shrink but they can't keep shrinking process size infinitely using existing memory technology.
^ That's screwed up, you'd think they would have concluded they had enough evidence long ago and prosecuted him already.
I don't think getting to 2-5 TB is a technical issue so much as a fiscal one, after all there are microSD with 64gb and while the technology is a little different, it's not significantly larger. 32 microSD cards (2 TB worth) could easily fit into a 2.5 inch hard drive.
Wat, #2? That would make a fine episode of The Closer - Brenda racing through an interview, as Tao whispers to her increasingly urgent "Disk Quota Warning" messages from the Evidence Management Database.
The simpsons already did it.
Yes that's what I meant, but there is a technical issue too. Process size shrink means more capacity per dollar. However, it's not just a matter of volume on an SSD, it's more one of surface area using two sides of a PCB that also has the DRAM cache, controller, and power circuitry as well as parallelized traces going to all, or at least groups of chips.
They could stack a 2nd PCB, but then you have an area sandwiched together where heat can't escape well which isn't something I'd want, especially when the product would cost a few thousand dollars.
Consider flash process size is now 19nm, with some predicting it won't be viable under 10nm, which means less than doubled capacity all else being equal, that today's $2000 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, pretty much the largest commonly available, may never make it to 2TB for $2000... until a new memory tech replaces flash.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/nand_dying/