Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years 395
Ralph_19 writes "Wired visited Seagate's R&D labs and learned we can expect 3.5-inch 300-terabit hard drives within a matter of years. Currently Seagate is using perpendicular recording but in the next decade we can expect heat-assisted magnetic recording (HARM), which will boost storage densities to as much as 50 terabits per square inch. 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." In the meantime, Hitachi is shipping a 1 TB HDD sometime this year. It is expected to retail for $399.
Call it The Big Johnson (Score:0, Funny)
Backup Solution? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Terabits??? (Score:5, Funny)
Through the magic of math: Tb / 8 = TB and so (300Tb)/8 = 37.5TB
/GASP
Aikon-
Re:Reliability? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Backup Solution? (Score:5, Funny)
I sprained a rib, choking back a laugh.
Re:product looking for a market (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Terabits??? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Backup Solution? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:HARM (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's great. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Terabits??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Terabits??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Terabits??? (Score:3, Funny)
...and Slashdot pedants.
Re:Terabits??? (Score:3, Funny)
So you see, it's not that any of them are trying to deceive. They're simply caught up in a game that some idiot started in attempt to make a fast buck. Now everyone has to suffer. Thanks a lot, marketing twerp.
Re:product looking for a market (Score:2, Funny)
I am your dad. Defragment your hard drive - it's a real mess.
Re:Terabits??? (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing, because they're elitist idiots. As a civil engineer and computer scientist, I'll tell you this: there is no such thing as "software engineering!" If there were, the liability settlements alone would have killed off the entire industry years ago.