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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.
So one hard drive will serve all of the porn ever made? Cool.
I want to see the tape drive for that thing, Bitches.
Through the magic of math: Tb / 8 = TB and so (300Tb)/8 = 37.5TB
/GASP
Aikon-
Well, if it doesn't work, just use a bigger HAMR...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Two words... p0rn and piracy...
Yeah, the HD industry really needs to stop doing this. I mean, with Terabit drives, you are going to be loosing huge percentages due to that stupid 1000 = 1024 logic they have. 1000 GB is going to end up really being closer to 930 GB
You can keep your HAMRs away from my HDD as well.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
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You mean 4 instead of 10 you insensitive clod!
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How much is that in TiB anyway ?
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Standards that come along and re-define terms in common usage decades after their first use should be ignored, and are by everyone except those marketing hard drives.
...and Slashdot pedants.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
It's not that any of them are dead set on it. It's a cold war. For example, if Seagate decided that it needed to get right with its consumers and started labeling its disks accurately, then Maxtor, WD, etc would have the competitive advantage because their drives of identical capacity would be labeled as having more space. Ultimately, it's the consumer's fault for not reading the fine print on the boxes he buys. If Seagate (or any other manufacturer) could trust its consumers to be informed enough not to buy into the 1000 byte Kilobyte farce, then they would be able to change. But the fact remains that the consumer is stupid and cannot be trusted to make that decision. Long ago, some marketing twerp at one of these companies figured out that kilo/mega/giga ... are all metric units measured in thousands increments and decided to use the metric measurement and put the "decryption" key (1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes) in 2 point font on the bottom of the box. Unable to make a hard disk whose actual capacity matched this one's imaginary capacity for a similar price, all the other manufacturers followed suit.
So you see, it's not that any of them are trying to deceive. They're simply caught up in a game that some idiot started in attempt to make a fast buck. Now everyone has to suffer. Thanks a lot, marketing twerp.
> wow,you sound like my dad in the mid 80's.
I am your dad. Defragment your hard drive - it's a real mess.
Nothing, because they're elitist idiots. As a civil engineer and computer scientist, I'll tell you this: there is no such thing as "software engineering!" If there were, the liability settlements alone would have killed off the entire industry years ago.
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