Moore’s law realities for recording systems and memory storage components: HDD, tape, NAND, and optical
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This paper describes trends in the storage technologies associated with Linear Tape Open (LTO) Tape cartridges, hard disk drives (HDD), and NAND Flash based storage devices including solid-state drives (SSD). This technology discussion centers on the relationship between cost/bit and bit density and, specifically on how the Moore’s Law perception that areal density doubling and cost/bit halving every two years is no longer being achieved for storage based components. This observation and a Moore’s Law Discussion are demonstrated with data from 9-year storage technology trends, assembled from publically available industry reporting sources.
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Tape storage costs 7-8 orders of magnitude less than DNA data storage, about 16 USD/TB, with prices decreasing by 10% every year.
“In comparison, tape storage costs 7–8 orders of magnitude less, i.e., about 16 USD/TB of data, with prices decreasing by 10% every year”
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- Authors
- Fontana, R. E., & Decad, G. M.
- Affiliations
- IBM Research - Almaden (US)
- Venue
- AIP Advances
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Published
- 2017-12-19
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 2158-3226 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2778907861
- Cited by
- 49
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 4.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- AIP Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Advanced Data Storage Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Magnetic properties of thin films
- Keywords
- Moore's law, storage technology trends, hard disk drives, tape storage, NAND flash memory, solid-state drives, optical data storage, bit density, cost per bit, areal density
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