Do 4tb 2.5in 9.5mm internal HDDs exist yet?

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That Samsung 4TB SSD is either 7mm or 9.5mm.

Price?
Let's go back a few years.
My first PC had a 10 megabyte drive. ~$300.
10MB. In a same size package as a current HDD

Recently, I bought a 8TB Seagate. ~$225.
Same size package.

10 megabytes vs 8 terabytes.
To get that same drive space with those original drives...it would literally fill up the entire first floor of my house, wall to wall, to a depth of 5 or 6 feet.
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duomaxwell007

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I would think that too except Ive seen smaller things that can hold just as much data

 
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duomaxwell007

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a) not paying more than the cost of a PC for a hard drive and

b) Im sure its not 9.5mm
 
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That Samsung 4TB SSD is either 7mm or 9.5mm.

Price?
Let's go back a few years.
My first PC had a 10 megabyte drive. ~$300.
10MB. In a same size package as a current HDD

Recently, I bought a 8TB Seagate. ~$225.
Same size package.

10 megabytes vs 8 terabytes.
To get that same drive space with those original drives...it would literally fill up the entire first floor of my house, wall to wall, to a depth of 5 or 6 feet.
 
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Paperdoc

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Ah, USAFRet, the bad old days! 10 MB (and in a 5¼" wide format, 1" thick!) was the size of the first HDD included in the IBM PC-XT, the first IBM model that included a hard drive, from the early 1980's. My first 2 machines (purchased in 1993 for a retail store and its associated off-site office) had HDD's in the new 3½" wide format with capacities of 200 MB and a whopping 350MB! (In those days, PC's did not know how to access anything over about 750 MB.) In a few years as the larger office unit ran low on space, I started using Windows 3.1's built-in compression utility so that it effectively had nearly 500 MB capacity. Oh, and those drives cost more than $300 each.

Not as big as yours, but our most recent purchase was a pair of Seagate 4 TB units for video storage, at about $130 each. As you said, small current sizes, each is less than half the price of those 1993 units, and over 10,000 times as much storage capacity! Ain't technology grand! And that is why OP asks impatiently, "...whats taking them so long to make one?"
 
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A year and a half later, and capacity has still not moved an inch. Literally, it's 2018 & we're in the exact same place as we were in 2016 (with regards to internal HDDs). Pretty sad :(
 
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