Friday, November 26th 2010
Hitachi and Partners Develop New HDD Technology Providing 8-Fold Density Increase
A consortium led by Hitachi, including Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a public-sector body that promotes research of energy-efficient technologies, National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Kyoto University, have developed a new hard drive data recording technology that promises to increase data density 8-fold.
The researchers have developed a new patterning technology for the magnetized bits that are laid on the platters, which are just 10 nm in size. This is made possible by using new materials, and making use of a self-arranged phenomenon of polymer materials. Its practical applications increases areal-density of disk platters to 3.9 Terabits per square inch, an 8-fold increase compared to the 500 Gigabits per square inch that's currently standard. This paves the way for 24 Terabyte (TB) hard drives in the very near future.
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The researchers have developed a new patterning technology for the magnetized bits that are laid on the platters, which are just 10 nm in size. This is made possible by using new materials, and making use of a self-arranged phenomenon of polymer materials. Its practical applications increases areal-density of disk platters to 3.9 Terabits per square inch, an 8-fold increase compared to the 500 Gigabits per square inch that's currently standard. This paves the way for 24 Terabyte (TB) hard drives in the very near future.
51 Comments on Hitachi and Partners Develop New HDD Technology Providing 8-Fold Density Increase
Right now I'm happy with 2tb drives but as i move onto storing more HD video i will love the ever increasing capacity for use as secondary storage, as far as i can see though SSD for primary is still the way forward.
Any idea if this will also increase sequential speed as well as capacity?
I look forward to that! Bring on the new Samsung Spinpoint Fx (assuming they'll be allowed to employ the tech)!:rockout::pimp::respect:
the more the better.
i think we will be stuck at 1080p for many years... i cant see it incressing before 2016-2018 etleast :(.... even pc monitors havnt gone far past 1080p for a wile.
"At full resolution, those signals are transmitted at a staggering 24Gb/s" :roll:
"Uncompressed, a 20 minute broadcast would require roughly 4TB of storage"
Really i can't wait for both ultra high storage amounts to go with ultra high definition but it will take a while :(
I would love a nice fast SSD as my boot drive then a pair of 24TB drives in raid 1 to store everything else but unlike some people (with more data than i have storage space in my house :p) that would last me for a year or two :laugh:
One can never have too much space and the additional density will increase the performance. So, bring it on!
If so they could read/write around 300MB/s which would make ssd almost obsolete if not for the quick access/load times.