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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.

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  1. HARM by Xebikr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow. That is not an acronym I want associated with my hard drive.

  2. WORST ACRONYM EVER ! by djdavetrouble · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lets give it a name people can trust their data to!
    How about HARM ? Its an acronym for the actual technology itself, techies love that kind of stuff, like RAID and LOL...
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  3. Can you say... by Super+Dave+Osbourne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Pron, boing!

  4. Re:Terabits??? by Novus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or, in less confusing notation, 8 b = 1 B, therefore 8 Tb = 1 TB (or 1 Tb = 1/8 Tb if you prefer) and 300 Tb = 37.5 TB. The parent is apparently trying to say (x/Tb)/8 = (x/TB) or (1/Tb)/8 = 1/TB, which simplifies to what I said.

  5. 300 Terabits. by CODiNE · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And ya know how much we'll actually get to use?

    Real world KB = 1,024 bytes.
    Real world MB = 1,048,576 bytes.
    etc...

    HD makers fantasy we-can-lie-all-we-want-and-it's-not-called-fraud world.
    KB = 1,000 bytes
    MB = 1,000,000 bytes
    etc...

    So your brand new 300TB HD is actually going to give you 273TB. Yaaay.
    Yet your 100TB of video will actually BE 100TB... and 300TB of it won't fit. Gee thanks HD manufacturers of the world... you've already united.

    Hey quick question. In what year did HD makers pull the ole Megabyte Mibbibyte or whatever switcheroo on us? I remember buying 512MB HDs that really were.

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