Seagate has announced it has reached the storage density of 1 terabit per square inch, a major achievement that promises to double the storage capacity of current hard disk . The company states that fail to produce a 3.5-inch hard disk with a capacity of 60 terabytes, all within the next 10 years. To achieve this record, the company has used the technology of recording next-gen heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which plans to replace the current Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), introduced in 2006.
The current units are 3.5 inch can handle 620 gigabits per square inch while discs from 2.5 it can handle 500. The first generation of HAMR drives should already doubled this capability, we hope that everything will be able to improve the market situation is not that hard disk is still the best.
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