Toshiba Increases Drive Capacity by 5X; ETA 2013

August 18th, 2010

Don’t drink the water, eat the food or breathe the air, but…

Via: PC World:

Toshiba will detail a breakthrough in data storage later Wednesday that it says paves the way for hard drives with vastly higher capacity than today.

The breakthrough has been made in the research of bit-patterned media, a magnetic storage technology that is being developed for future hard disk drives. In today’s drives, magnetic material is spread across the surface of the disk and bits of data are stored across several hundred magnetic grains, but the technology is reaching its limit.

Bit-patterned media breaks up the recording surface into numerous magnetic bits, each consisting of a few magnetic grains. Under a microscope, the magnetic bits look like thousands of tiny spheres crammed next to each another.

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Toshiba’s sample media is still in the prototype stage, but is built at a density equivalent to 2.5 terabits per square inch. Contrast that with Toshiba’s current highest capacity drive today, which is based on existing technology and has a density of 541 gigabits per square inch or about one fifth that of the new technology.

Toshiba expects the first drives based on bit-patterned media to hit the market around 2013.

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One Response to “Toshiba Increases Drive Capacity by 5X; ETA 2013”

  1. seanx38 says:
    August 20, 2010 at 12:01 am

    I don’t know if I can download enough porn to fill such a drive.

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