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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. Terabits??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's bad enough that hard drive manufacturers are dead set on confusing people with 1,000,000,000-byte GBs. Do they really need to start throwing around figures in Terabits? Seriously, enough is enough...

    1. Re:Terabits??? by AikonMGB · · Score: 5, Funny

      Through the magic of math: Tb / 8 = TB and so (300Tb)/8 = 37.5TB

      /GASP

      Aikon-

    2. Re:Terabits??? by jZnat · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean 4 instead of 10 you insensitive clod!

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  2. Backup Solution? by LibertineR · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to see the tape drive for that thing, Bitches.

    1. Re:Backup Solution? by LibertineR · · Score: 5, Funny
      I swear to God this is true. I had a client ask me to create two partitions on a 500G drive, which was loaded with 200G of medical insurance claims. When I asked why, he said that although he didnt want to buy another drive, he understood the importance of having a backup for his data.

      I sprained a rib, choking back a laugh.

  3. 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

  4. Re:product looking for a market by Prof.Phreak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Data centers spend millions (literally) on storage. Try pricing a few hundred terabyte solutions, and you'll see.

    Besides, if you could store all of music/movies/images that where -ever- created on your home drive (not just those copies of libraries of congress), why not? I'd certainly wouldn't mind having all that storage---cheaply.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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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