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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.

4 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    insert joke about porn here

  2. w00t! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    300 TB! That's enough to store a full 1 percent of all the pr0n ever created!

  3. I for one.. by tommten · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    welcome our new terabyte overlords!

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  4. Re:HARM by Joebert · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn you Zonk...

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