Today, available number of different storage devices introduced in internal, external and network attached each with their own purpose and application. In these times, internal storage is generally called as a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD), which will hosts your computer’s operating systems and programs. External storage arrivals, mostly in the form of external drives, which connects to a computer through a peripheral port, like USB or Thunderbolt. Finally, network attached storage (NAS) solutions are connects to a switch or a router to give storage room and services to the complete network. Just take a view on upcoming storage devices which will make your 2016 outstanding.
Compact and capacious portable drives
We are always looking for enormous capacity with fewer prices, where available portable drives capacity with laptop disks inside can extendable up to 2000GB(2TB). Most of the USB drives are automatically activate when computer is turn on.
Enormous Capacity
Today, smallest portable hard drives come in size of 500GB, which is enough for your personal data backup. A well- known application of a hard drive is for maintaining a personal data which is held on your computer or laptop. Some portable drives have software which assists you to take your all backup automatically, holding your chosen directories in sync once you plug in the drive.
Performance upgraded
Day by day USB is updating its performance with its earlier version e.g. USB 2.0 to USB 3.0, improved in standard for connection in less time. For an instance, transferring a file required 100MB/s which is now one third of the speed i.e. 35MB/s.
Robust Protection
Robust design with handy feature hard drives is really works for an internal data? Check for the shock-resistance ratings like the US military MIL-STD-810F 516.5, a transit drop test which means withstand being dropped 26 times onto a hard floor, once on to each face, edge and corner, from a distance of 1.22m.
Strengthening the Security
There are some issues related to the drive if it is stolen or lost. How to get your data back or how can you identify that your data is not read by anyone. Yes there is a way to ensure it by hardware encryption or you can use a software application to encrypt either parts of the device. Though it is a way for detecting keyloggers and other malwares, it is hard-coated into the drive may change or upgrade.
Increased number of people is opting for an external hard drive to enhance their laptop’s storage capacity. While solid state drives (SSDs) remain comparatively expensive for the amount of storage, where standard USB external hard drives are becoming affordable with increased capacities.
Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)
New hard drive recording technology SMR, with helium-filled drives, enables for intense capacity on hard drives than regular storage methods.
SMR achieves higher areal densities by grasping tracks closer together. Tracks overlap on each other, like shingles on a roof, allowing more amounts of data to be written to the same space. As new data is written, the drive tracks are trimmed. Because of the reader element on the drive head, which is relatively smaller than the writer, all data can still be read off the trimmed track without compromise to data integrity or reliability. In addition, traditional reader and writer elements can be used for SMR. This does not require significant new production capital to be used in a product, and will allow SMR-enabled HDDs to save costs.
In 2014, the first SMR hard drive, which improved hard drive density by 25%. At $260 for 8TB, it’s a cost-effective drive for backups and archiving though not necessarily performance, the drive still has a 5,900 rpm spindle speed.
Traditional hard drives are covering 10TB now, but that could appear like a small amount of space if DNA-based storage takes off. According to the recent research, based on the currently understood science, it could be possible to encrypt all human knowledge in about nine liters of solution.
Why use DNA?
Density of the data is the basic reason. DNA’s Storage capability and stability is better than magnetic tape backups and flash memory, which might last for several decades, the life of DNA storage is consistently uniformed in centuries.
DNA is storage medium and building custom DNA strands that can be read reliably is the challenge. The expert teams that performed the new studies acknowledged that it is presently pretty expensive to do this, but the cost is expected to come down dramatically in the next few years.
The self-assembling nature of DNA could make it possible. A file can be encrypted across thousands of DNA strands, but the data can be retrieved by amplifying the DNA through a process of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which also makes DNA fingerprinting possible.
The encrypting and decrypting is a complicated process, with improved technology, DNA storage might not as speedy as accessing a hard drive. However, many long-term storage systems can take ages to access as archived tapes or drives are located and powered up. DNA storage with its vastly improved data density could be a perfect choice for this application.
More Futuristic Storage Technologies
Experts and IT companies have been working on holographic data storage form last decade. In 2011, GE exhibited its holographic discs storage: DVD-sized disks that could store 500GB it could possible just because of fixing the data onto layers of tiny holograms rather than Blu-Ray discs, which store data only on the surface. These discs also had a normally long life time prediction of 30 or more years. Not much has been said about the Holographic Virtual Disc (HVD), one of the biggest developers of the holographic drives, InPhase Technologies, went belly up in 2010. That’s not to say the technology won’t be a prominent storage technology in the future.
It maybe quantum storage. Scientists are presently doing research on the ways to store data using quantum physics. For an instance, a bit of data attached to the spin of an electron. Right now this technology can only store tiny amounts of data for a very short amount of time, but if it works and takes off, we could view instant data syncing between two points anywhere, possible just because of the quantum entanglement.