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Seagate Overcomes Superparamagnetic Limit

Posted by chrisd on from the my-1gb-microdrive-just-died dept.

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."

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  1. alright ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    time to start counting how many "more pr0n and [mp3|ogg]"

  2. Thanks Seagate! No Really. by Renderer+of+Evil · · Score: 1, Redundant

    My porn collection salutes your hard research.

  3. The hard drive is an archaic piece of shit . by zymano · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's way past it's expiration date. So what if it holds petabytes. It's slow and it's one the main reasons of computer hardware failure. Crystal holography or layered optical disks are what are needed , NOT MAGNETIC SPINNING TURNTABLES.