First Terabyte (1000 Gigabyte) 3.5" Drive
Picture says it all!
As you know, the caveats here are: when you opted for capacity, you loose in performance. The rotational delay will get longer and furthermore..The more space you get, the more junk you keep. And putting all you eggs in one basket…Well you know the rest of the story….
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But wait, how about 300Terabytes on the same 3.5″ disk?…Read more after the jump.
..Their current solution to this problem is recording data perpendicular to the plane of the media. This technology, however, is expected to peak out at about 1 terabit per square inch. 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.
First up is heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, which uses lasers to momentarily heat the disk surface and allow the drive heads to write information. When the surface of the drive cools, the bits settle into a more stable state for longer-term reliability. 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.
But laser-powered disk drives are only one side of the coin. It will take so-called bit-pattern media to add the tail to HAMR’s head. [Source: Wired]
Wow.
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