Seagate just shatter the record for memory density on difficult campaign by using a new recording method acting to stuff 1 Tb into a square inch . That’snearly twice the honest-to-goodness record . Hard drives are about to get vast .
Seagate pressure all of that data into that tiny blank space by using “ heat - assisted magnetic transcription ” instead of perpendicular recording to write information to harrow . ExtremeTech reports :
HAMR , which was originally attest by Fujitsu in 2006 , add a optical maser to the hard drive head . The head seek as normal , but whenever it wants to spell data the laser plow on . take data is done in the conventional way of life . Just so you understand how small the magnetic bits are in a HAMR drive , one terabit per satisfying in equate to two million bits per linear inch ; in other Logos , each land site is just 12.7 nanometers long – or about a dozen atoms .
In the scant condition the engineering science will result in new 6 TB 3.5 - column inch desktop drive and 2 TB 2.5 - inch laptop drives . Currently the large content drives are 1 TB and 3 TB respectively for laptop and desktops . That ’s already an telling boost in capacity .
In theory , though , HAMR should admit hard drive to write up to 10 terabits per square column inch , which means that in the future you could potentially cram about 60Tb onto a 3.5 - column inch drive . [ SeagateviaExtremeTech ]
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