Seagate has said that a new technology called Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording could mean we see 300 Terabyte drives by 2010.
Joystiq says that the technology would mean you could store 6,144 Blu-ray discs - quite enough to allow the PS3 to act as a home entertainment center with nary a disc in sight.
Seagate reckons that it can get 50GB of data in a square inch of physical space. That's some pretty stunning data density, and is sure to be something of a calamity should the drive get a bad sector.
As a Seagate tech explains, HAMR:
"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."
There are surely going to be implications for reliability - many users prefer to buy drives with lower capacity, and hence lower data density, to increase the reliability of the drive.
Do you look forward to the days of multi-terabyte drives, or are you struggling to fill 160GB even now? Let us know your thoughts over in the forums.
Joystiq says that the technology would mean you could store 6,144 Blu-ray discs - quite enough to allow the PS3 to act as a home entertainment center with nary a disc in sight.
Seagate reckons that it can get 50GB of data in a square inch of physical space. That's some pretty stunning data density, and is sure to be something of a calamity should the drive get a bad sector.
As a Seagate tech explains, HAMR:
"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."
There are surely going to be implications for reliability - many users prefer to buy drives with lower capacity, and hence lower data density, to increase the reliability of the drive.
Do you look forward to the days of multi-terabyte drives, or are you struggling to fill 160GB even now? Let us know your thoughts over in the forums.
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