mrwinters :
I am struggling in my ITT Tech class and I need to find hard evidence on when I think a 100tb hard drive will be commercially available, please help thank you
100TB hard drives are going to be commercially available when there is a market to it. Nowadays people only buy 1TB and 6TB is considered overkill to everything that you might come up with. Drives usually die before they're all filled up so a 100TB would have more than half its capacity thrown to waste. If in the future there is such application that needs such big space in you're disk and is for the so called «regular people» then there most definitily will be some available. So for your work I'd suggest you so just say that, unless it is designed for the military, there will be no such thing available in the future and if they have the STUPID idea to come up with one it'll be intended for a niche of people that collect them/stare at them for hours and then go to sleep. I, myself, would just write that it is illogical for such thing to exist unless programmes start needing that much space and/or are intended for «enthusiastics» and there'll be a short amount of them available.
If nothing that I said has conviced you then...... They'll be available in the time that they'll be needed, like 2020 to make it easy on the humongous information centrals to keep all of their information on a single disk (of course backups will be required), but it'll make searches for the said informations to be held in a much more organized way.
Somewhere in the middle of all my rambling I might, just might, have been a bit redundant, but if you did understand something, I hope it at least helped in some way.