Seagate: 300 terabyte hard drive will arrive by 2010

zekrahminator · Jan 3, 2007, 10:43 PM

Seagate announced a while ago that they would use heat-assisted recording technology once perpendicular recording reached it's limits. And as development of heat-assisted recording technology continues, Seagate has discovered that they can store much more data on a drive than they initially thought. Seagate claims that they can stick 50 terabytes in a square inch of data, meaning a standard 3.5" drive can hold a whopping 300 terabytes of data. That's equivalent to 6,144 50GB Blu-ray disks, the entire PlayStation 1, 2, and 3 library with room to spare, or the Library of Congress.

Source: The Inquirer

Namslas90 · Jan 3, 2007, 10:49 PM

Well now all intrested can expand their porn file also.

zekrahminator · Jan 3, 2007, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Namslas90

Well now all intrested can expand their porn file also.

Dude I don't think there is 300 terabytes of porn...

PVTCaboose1337 · Jan 3, 2007, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by zekrahminator

Dude I don't think there is 300 terabytes of porn...

No... answer me this: How big is the internet? How much of the internet is porn?

Namslas90 · Jan 3, 2007, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by zekrahminator

Dude I don't think there is 300 terabytes of porn...

There is easily that much available in Europe alone, your young yet, you'l learn!!lol

PVTCaboose1337 · Jan 3, 2007, 10:56 PM

Random Murderer · Jan 3, 2007, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by PVTCaboose1337

lol!

peach1971 · Jan 3, 2007, 11:19 PM

Lol, that´s one of the best PC related fake gifs I´ve ever seen...

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heat-assisted recording technology

Mh.. sounds hot

OneCool · Jan 3, 2007, 11:48 PM

I think my Jassie James collection will fit on that

WarEagleAU · Jan 4, 2007, 12:22 AM

Rofl, that is hillarious. Good God, with one 300 Terabyte HD, No one would ever need to buy HDs really again, until they die out that is. I love it. Hell, Id love a 1 TB drive with a 300 GB raid of 150GB 10000 RPM SATA drives

AsphyxiA · Jan 4, 2007, 12:34 AM

ill buy 2 and download the internet LOL

Murasame · Jan 4, 2007, 12:45 AM

Terabytes? pfft that so last century. I'm waiting for the petabyte 15krpm drives in raid 0. Then I will officially be able to store as much porn as I want.

Wile E · Jan 4, 2007, 02:59 AM

Damnit, just when I was ecstatic about reaching 1.25TB. lol

Track · Jan 4, 2007, 07:45 AM

So they find a new technology that allows them to put 1,000 time more space on HDDs??? Thats just crazy..

DanTheBanjoman · Jan 4, 2007, 07:52 AM

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72387-0.html

Wired speaks of 50Tb. Which is more likely since data density always is in bits, not bytes.

kakazza · Jan 4, 2007, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Murasame

Terabytes? pfft that so last century. I'm waiting for the petabyte 15krpm drives in raid 0. Then I will officially be able to store as much porn as I want.

Yeh, I too want to increase my chance of data loss as I get more space!

Thanks DanTheBanjoman for the link, I guess theINQ screwed up again.

ex_reven · Jan 4, 2007, 11:50 AM

LMFAO loved the GIF...

Say you DID download the internet...how would you backup

?

Murasame · Jan 4, 2007, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by kakazza

Yeh, I too want to increase my chance of data loss as I get more space!

True, but if that does happen I'll be able to say "Damn my hard drives crashed and I had the internet saved on them!"

Jan 3, 2007, 10:43 PM	#1
zekrahminator McLovin Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: My house. Posts: 6,280 (2.35/day) Thanks: 105 Thanked 340 Times in 246 Posts System Specs	Seagate: 300 terabyte hard drive will arrive by 2010 Seagate announced a while ago that they would use heat-assisted recording technology once perpendicular recording reached it's limits. And as development of heat-assisted recording technology continues, Seagate has discovered that they can store much more data on a drive than they initially thought. Seagate claims that they can stick 50 terabytes in a square inch of data, meaning a standard 3.5" drive can hold a whopping 300 terabytes of data. That's equivalent to 6,144 50GB Blu-ray disks, the entire PlayStation 1, 2, and 3 library with room to spare, or the Library of Congress. Source: The Inquirer

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