Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years

Ralph_19 writes "Wired visited Seagate's R&D labs and learned we can expect 3.5-inch 300-terabit hard drives within a matter of years. Currently Seagate is using perpendicular recording but in the next decade we can expect heat-assisted magnetic recording (HARM), which will boost storage densities to as much as 50 terabits per square inch. The technology allows a smaller number of grains to be used for each bit of data, taking advantage of high-stability magnetic compounds such as iron platinum." In the meantime, Hitachi is shipping a 1 TB HDD sometime this year. It is expected to retail for $399.

Comments

teraBIT, not BYTE.

[nsanders]

FYI, the article discusses teraBITs, not BYTES. So don't get your hopes up that we'll be seeing 37.5 terabyte hard drives any time soon.

Re:Terabits???

[dangitman]

Except, of course, that 1Kb = 1024 bytes was in use long before 1999...

So what? It was still wrong in 1999. Just because you're a computer geek doesn't change the definition of "kilo" being 1000. The idiots who decided to use "kilo" to mean 1024 are the ones in the wrong, and in need of correction to meet international standards and common sense.