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Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years

Posted by Zonk on from the lot-of-pr0n dept.

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.

3 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That's great. by ImdatS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just quickly, the specs I found for the Hitachi Drive:

    - 5 discs, two heads each, rotating at 7200 RPM
    - 1070Mbps transfer rate
    - 8,7ms avg seek time
    - 4,17ms avg latency
    - around 9 watts power consumption while in "inactive-mode" (NOT reading or writing)

    Hope this helps

  2. HAMR not HARM by cheese-cube · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's HAMR not HARM. Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording. Here's the relevant Wikipedia article: HAMR.

  3. 300 teraBIT, 37.5 teraBYTE. by freeweed · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI, 300 / 8 = 37.5

    Sweet jesus, do you people not even read the summary anymore??

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