1TB Smartphone, 100TB Portable drive, 1PB Home NAS…that is what Dr. Tom Coughlin predicted we’ll see over the next 10 years at the Storage Visions conference last week during CES. PC Magazine’s Michael Miller wrote a great summary of the event. Where storage is headed both for the consumer and in the commercial space that creates much of the content we crave. The concept that Coughlin outlined was the idea that our devices will be able to capture content all of the time.
Think about that…
At any given moment, gigabytes, even terabytes of content could flow right to your phone, tablet, notebook, on whatever you use to consume it. If this is the case, bandwidth will have to get much wider and storage, well as Dr. Coughlin predicts: larger.
Look at where we are today.
- Desktop systems max out at 3TB per drive, external storage, the same.
- Laptops – the highest you can go on a standard sized laptop is 750GB
- Portable external drives currently sit at 1.5TB
- Tablets – most have 64GB or 128GB of storage
- SmartPhones – iPhones currently max out at 32GB
In 10 Years will it be…
- Desktop systems…will we still have desktops in 10 years?
- Laptops – 100TB
- Portable external drives – 100TB
- Tablets – 5TB
- SmartPhones – 1TB
Imagine that…
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Will it all be cloud storage at that point? Certainly any personal storage would be solid state.
It was my understanding that areal density is tapering off for mechanical drives. Certainly a single 100TB desktop drive is impossible?
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I got tired of waiting tell 2020 for 100TB. So I just bought 50 2TB instead.
I have one year insight, but I think smartphones could replace laptops.
1TB is now on usb flash drive. So a 100 tb would be approx 20 cm wide and long on a 2d plane, but the usb flash drives are more than $1000 each so 100*1000=100000 so they would cost $100,000 so they are possible but it won’t be worth it.