Posted on 01/04/2007 6:35:58 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Seagate stakes claim
By : Wednesday 03 January 2007, 08:12
According to Joystick, Seagate boffins are apparently working on a hard-drive which uses heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) techniques.
The boffins think that this will mean that they can shove 50TB of data into a single square inch of drive space, or around 300TB of information on a standard 3.5-inch drive.
This means that you can stuff the entire Library of Congress onto your hard-drive without any compression.
Being a gaming magazine, Joystick points out that this means that you could store 6,144 50GB Blu-ray disks or the entire Library of PS through PS3 games that could ever be created with room to spare. Of course there is no guarantee that anyone will be using Blu-Ray or the PS3 by 2010.
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Just damn....
Indeed.
I cant say for certain I will ever need that much space, I mean I compute alot but I only take up 20 gb of my 100 gb drive. At my rate it will take me a thousand years to fill up 300tb's, of course I am sure MS will find away to make a browser bloated enough to fill up much of the space.
I'd still want two of 'em. A bit like a gas in a chem lab experiment, software tends to fill up any and all available space in a given volume.
I'm firing up a machine that has two drives....one 750 Gig and the other a 400 Gig in an EZ-Swap rack....and I got good deals on the drives....now I need to figure out how to best use them....
Of course, Windows '10 will take 120Tb just for a basic install.
Yep, video quality will simply improve and increase the storage for video. If you build it, they will come.
Actually once internet speeds are increased to around 20-40 mb/s and movies are more readily downloaded w/o all of the crap you go through now then my storage needs will increase exponentially.
I wonder how much storage space an hour of uncompressed, high-definition holographic video would take up...
Do we have that yet?
I see I'm not the only NewEgg customer.
Read my mind. Seagate's CEO is an honest, honest man.
Newegg! My favorite.
Somebody do the math: how many HD-DVD films will that hold?
Has there been a thread yet about the Intel concept CPU with 80 cores controlled by an onboard network router, supposedly promising 1 teraflop?
Do you realize that this is equivalent to having 1000 300GB hard drives? Holy mackeral! What comes after terra? Penta?
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