The Limits To Perpendicular Recording

peterkern writes "Samsung has a new hard drive and says it can now store 667 GB on one disk, which comes out to be about 739 Gb/sq. in. That is more than five times the density when perpendicular recording was introduced back in 2006, and it is getting close to the generally expected soft limit of 1 Tb/sq. in. It's great that we can now store 2 TB on one hard drive and that 3-TB hard drives are already feasible. But how far can it go? It appears that the hard drive industry may start talking about heat-assisted magnetic recording again, soon."

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waste.. won't ...fit

[h00manist]

Drive full. It's packed in here dude. Please release some space. Like those potential-evidence 121,000 scanned federal court transcripts from 1972 you found in grandpas basement, but havent read yet to decide if it belongs on some icelandic website... Nobody's gonna read it all.