Hard Disk Drives (1984 to 2062)

The recent release of the Toshiba MG10 20TB Hard Drive has been a milestone within the HDD technology evolution, so we are taking this opportunity to look back at 40 years of HDD history and dare to extrapolate up to 40 years of HDD future inventions This outlook for the future of HDDs may seem unbelievable, but the same would have been said 20 or even 40 years ago about the current state of technology. Together, with the collaboration of our partners, we are continually striving to provide resilient concepts for managing multiple HDDs, operated and protected in high quality enclosures (e.g. AIC and Promise), connected to smart controllers (e.g. Broadcom) and managed by innovative software defined storage products (e.g. Open-E Jovian DSS). Ultimately, our HDDs have proven resilience, breaking technological boundaries over decades and they will continue to be a major contributor to high performance computing storage technologies for many years to come.