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Seagate Overcomes Superparamagnetic Limit
Longinus writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that hard drive manufacturer Seagate has "overcome a significant challenge in magnetic memory with a new technology capable of achieving far beyond today's storage densities -- up to as great as 50 terabits per square inch. Currently, the highest storage densities hover around 50 gigabits per square inch, but Seagate said its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology could break through the so-called superparamagnetic limit -- a memory boundary based on data bits so small they become magnetically unstable." Perhaps the near future of storage technology lies, for now, not in nanotech or holography, but still in magnetic recording."
Room for more pr0n and mp3.
Ughh I mean serious business applications
We had to destroy the sig to save the sig.
The need for higher storage density -- the number of data bits stored on a disk surface -- already has been addressed with smaller bits, but these data chunks are becoming so small that they will be magnetically unstable within the next five to 10 years, researchers said.
This is the real reason hard drive warranties have been getting shorter.
during a code review, that using 32-bit integers to store the number of sectors on the hard disk would be fine.
Perhaps I should revisit that piece of code....
does this mean that it needs to be VERY hot in order to operate
It sits where the AMD heatsink use to go.
Superparamagnetism...expialidocious!
Well, overcoming regular old laws is a bit easy these days for the major players, so it's good to see they're finding new challenges.
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I was just thinking that heat was what computers could use more of these days...
I guess this means my computer will eventually do double duty as a space heater.
50 terabytes per sq. in. 'ought to be enough for anybody!
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
According to legend, Longinus was the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Christ with a spear. That spear was for a long time believed to have a role in controlling the destiny of the world. Adolf Hitler spent years and millions of deutschmarks searching for the Spear of Longinus. It's no coincidence that Longinus himself posted this story. The Spear of Longinus was said during the Middle Ages to "havve propertyies of needed to peerce the superparamagnetism barrier," (according to Nostradamus) which will bring on the end times.
Pretend this is from Seagate:
Since 939 of the 1000 random people we surveyed did not know what a terabit was, we will be using the measure of mp3s per square inch when we release our newest hard drive. If AMD can make their own metric, then by God we can to.
(Weeks later a class action lawsuit is filed against Maxtor, Toshiba, et al for continuing to label their new products with the confusing terms Gigabyte and Terabyte, which no normal person really understands anyway.)
Yes, well, for that you'll have to wait for them to figure out a way around the superultramegahyperparamagnetic limit.
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How stable are hard drives really? all that data is packed pretty bloody close already, so your vital, un-backedup accounts data is probably the size of a pin-head - that sounds very safe :)
On the plus side, hard-drives would make excellent containers for transporting drugs - imagine if you will, a hard-drive manufacturer who designs a hard drive with enough space so that it can still work, even when packed with cocaine. They seal up the air filter so dogs cant smell it, and then ship a whole lot of hard drives out somewhere. If police check them, they will see working hard-drives - that weigh the same as the manufacturers specs. Then, at the destination, the drugs are removed and replaced with weights to match the specs. then sold as hard-drives.
That was pretty off topic and lacking of spell check..
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