Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Seagate R&D Announces 50 Terabit Breakthrough
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 01:57 PM
"Hard drive giant Seagate is set to present research findings this week which mean storage capacities of 50 terabits a square inch are within the grasp of technologists. It will present its findings on March 25th at the American Physical Society conference based on R&D using heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). That technique means that over 3.5 million high res photographs, 2,800 audio CDs, 1600 hours of TV programmes or the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress can sit on 30 millimetres disks. Seagate is confident that its R&D team will be able to deliver such ultra high storage densities."
Damn. Just when you thought that hard drives couldn't get any bigger. 8O I see two potential uses for this technology in my own life: being able to store much more video on my computer, and being able to back up redundant sets of data. If you had essentially unlimited storage, what would you do with it?
Damn. Just when you thought that hard drives couldn't get any bigger. 8O I see two potential uses for this technology in my own life: being able to store much more video on my computer, and being able to back up redundant sets of data. If you had essentially unlimited storage, what would you do with it?
