Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagate-achieves-a-whopping-6-9tb-storage-capacity-per-platter-in-its-laboratory-55tb-to-69tb-hard-drives-now-physically-possible

19•elorant•1h ago

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Neywiny•34m ago

> Seagate is leveraging its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to deliver its 6.9TB platter. If you want to check out how Seagate's HAMR technology works, check out our previous coverage. In a nutshell, HAMR uses heat-induced magnetic coercivity to write to a hard drive platter.

Wow so heat assisted magnetic recording is using heat to magnetically record data. Incredible explanation.

_wire_•19m ago

Mofo magnets! How do they work? With heat?!

almosthere•27m ago

I just bought a 2tb SSD drive that's the size of a tictac container...

Octoth0rpe•21m ago

Sure. And you paid, what, maybe $120? so, $60/tb. When seagate commercializes these, it'll be around $10/tb. My last seagate spinning disks for my nas were 20tb for $150.

SSDs have a valuable place in the world, but so do spinning disks. Physical size isn't a concern for my nas (I mean, assuming we're talking < 300cm^3 for the whole setup..), but $/tb is.

commandar•9m ago

Spinning rust still typically holds advantages for archival storage, as well.

There was literally a headline on the front page here a few days ago re: data degradation of SSDs during cold storage, as one example.

wmf•21m ago

Flash is far denser than hard disks but as long as it's more expensive it's not that relevant.

1970-01-01•27m ago

>7TB to 15TB platters available from 2031 onward

Isn't 0.1TB a little too low? I'm sure if they only improved this little in 5 years the company would be in big trouble.

jtokoph•15m ago

I wonder what the lifespan, error rate and speed of these drives are

Yokolos•11m ago

Probably no different than current drives? Who would pay more for worse drives? Particularly in enterprise, where defect rates and error rates make a much bigger difference and quickly add up across such a large number of drives.

cookiengineer•1m ago

> Probably no different than current drives? Who would pay more for worse drives? Particularly in enterprise, where defect rates and error rates make a much bigger difference and quickly add up across such a large number of drives.

Western Digital would like to have a word about shingled magnetic recording drives.

Razengan•7m ago

The perfect number.

The ideal has been achieved. We need go no further.

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