Seagate Drives Hit 1 Terabit Per Square Inch

[snakeair]

Sweeet!

Seagate has unveiled the first terabit-per-square-inch hard drive, essentially doubling the typical areal density of modern hard disks. First off, this will result in 6TB 3.5-inch desktop drives, and 2TB 2.5-inch laptop drives – but Seagate expects to expand to 60TB and 20TB drives respectively.

To have made such a big advance in drive density, Seagate incorporated a technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). The size of each magnetic bit in a hard drive dictates its size – these bits can only be made so small before the magnetism of other bits begins to take effect. HAMR bits are made of compounds that can withstanding further miniaturization. Fujitsu developed HAMR in 2006, and the system adds a laser to the hard drive head. The drive head seeks as normal, but when it is...

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Thoughts on this?

[carlhenson]

That is a nice development in terms of data storage. Pushing farther to reach the limits of current technology.

Though, it is possible that it will be a lot more sensitive with regards to shock because of the packing method of magnetic bits.

[Nerohawkins]

! tera HD... HWOW!!! i got to get me one of those.

[indybail]

Was it that long ago I was upgrading to an IBM AT with a 10MB hard drive? lol

[ChrisTrack]

oh my goodnees! the bit torrent possibilities.....

[StevenPayales]

Huge games capacities .. HD 1080p movies .. MP3 collections .. 6TB is ultimately a must have

[MrKeh]

Yeah when you start getting into HD stuff storage space gets eaten up like theres no tomorrow. Im gonna have to buy some more HDD's since my 3TB is getting full!