300 Terabits on a common HDD?

Wednesday, Jan. 3 2007 | Author: Griffith

Mark Kryder, from Seagate, recently had a chat with the folks over at wired and spoke of a very promising technology called HAMR. The technology allows them to put more data than they ever could on the surface of a disk, and so far, Mark and his team have been able to put 421 Gb per square inch in their test labs.

In the next decade, Seagate plans to hit the market with twin technologies that could fly far beyond, ultimately offering as much as 50 terabits per square inch. On a standard 3.5-inch drive, that’s equivalent to 300 terabits of information, enough to hold the uncompressed contents of the Library of Congress.

Of course, the technology isn’t economically viable but in 5 years or less, these are the disks that we will be buying. And this could very well change the way we view and store media today. 300 Terabits is over 38 thousand gigabytes. Think of what you could do with that amount of storage of your favorite data.

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3 Responses for "300 Terabits on a common HDD?"

Dylan Bennett

January 3rd, 2007 at 06:40
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In January of 1995 (12 years ago), I purchased a P133 with a 1.6GB hard drive. I was upgrading from a 40MB hard drive. I distinctly remember having a feeling of awe that I would never have to delete anything ever again. These days I have temp files larger than that hard drive.

What have I learned from that?

That 38 thousand gigabytes might sound like an absurd amount of space today, but in 12 years my kids will be creating files larger than 38 thousand gigs using minor applications that come free with their OS.

In other words, our need for storage capacity will always outpace our ability to fulfill that need.
CrimsonKnight13

January 3rd, 2007 at 10:03
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With that much space, no fear of the amount of games I have installed or the amount of anime/movies/tv shows I could make an archive of. Hi-Def will definitely utilize this and anyone that thinks they’ll never use that much is wrong… at least in the sense of a PC power user/enthusiast or multimedia freak.
floopy

January 21st, 2007 at 18:27
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anyone remember floppy discs ;-)