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HAMR Hard Disk Drives Postponed To 2018 (anandtech.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the losing-a-battle-in-the-capacity-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Unfortunately the hard disk drive industry is not ready to go live with Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR). The technology is yet not reliable enough for mass production. Over the years, producers of hard drives, platters and recording heads have revealed various possible timeframes for commercial availability of drives with HAMR technology. Their predictions were not accurate. The current goalpost is set to year 2018. While solid state disks based on Flash memory keep seeing rapid improvements as well, HDDs still kick butt in scenarios where high areal density is more important than ripping transfer speeds. The areal density of HAMR products is predicted to exceed 1.5 Tb per square inch.

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  1. Re: WRONG! by Denis+Lemire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3½" diskettes were never referred to as a hard disk, like their 5 1/4 counterparts they were referred to as floppies. Named after the internal magnetic medium, not the casing.