Administrator DKT27 Posted October 5, 2012 Administrator Share Posted October 5, 2012 The Japanese company announced a new laser-based technology capable of doubling storage density of magnetic hard disks. Expect ginormous HDDs within a two-year time frame. TDK Corporation plans to improve the current HDD tech by doubling the medium areal density available for data storage. The Japanese company announced the development of its new magnetic heads for thermal-assisted recording of digital data, a technology that should bring another substantial evolution for hard disk drives after Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR). Magnetic heads capable of thermal-assisted recording (also known as heat-assisted magnetic recording or HAMR) are one of the most chatted technology breakthroughs for magnetic storage of the last years, and now TDK says the heads will begin shipping inside next-generation HDDs within the end of 2014. Thanks to a new, highly stable magnetic platter made by Showa Denko K.K., the Japanese manufacturer was able to harness the short laser pulses of the HAMR head to heat the medium before recording the digital information: in this way, the space available for storage grows beyond what’s possible with current PMR hard disk drives. TDK claims to have achieved a storage areal density of 1.5 Terabits per square inch, ie. a value that’s two times higher than today’s standards. Thanks to the chemically stable magnetic platters+HAMR head combination, the Japanese company says it will be possible to produce 2.5” HDDs with 2 Terabytes of storage space and 3.5”, desktop-tailored hard disk drives with 8 to 10 Terabytes of available storage. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 the little bastards need to fix the 2.2 tb limit first. got one 4 tb that i thought i click on the right parition type but couldnt get it to alocat the whole 4tb. so return. try another one and that 4tb was clearly only a 2tb drive. its azz got return too.harddrive makers put more clearer easy to understand paperwork in the large harddrives so we dont be returning them so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Is this the same company that used to make cassette tapes back in the day? The name brought back memories of the good old days :) Blast from the past - I remember my Mom used to buy blank tapes mfg. by a certain TDK and Phillips to record nursery rhymes recited by me or other such stuff she thought was 'cute', which was practically every indecipherable nonsense I'd utter as a toddler :P LOL! If I can find those things (after more than 20 years) maybe I should digitize those - me reciting "Twinkle Twinkle little stars" or "Ba Ba black sheep" in my baby accent :hehe: I sincerely hope we still have those things after all these years :yes: EDIT: Of course, they are the cassette tape makers of yore :clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 the little bastards need to fix the 2.2 tb limit first. :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal X Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I say they should get rid of the conventional hard drive and focus more on solid state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 "Ginormous" HDDs might be a boon for data centers, but consumers have less of a need for them every day. This category ultimately seems doomed for niche status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 "Ginormous" HDDs might be a boon for data centers, but consumers have less of a need for them every day. This category ultimately seems doomed for niche status. I'm not of the opinion that we'll be needing them right now, but here's something to consider - Bill gates, back in the early 80's is often quoted to have said that "640K is more memory than anyone will ever need on a computer,". Although it's probably just a myth, people at the time did believe it to be true! Just goes to show, that making sweeping statements about tomorrow's technology might just be fraught with danger :D File sizes are growing by the day. With faster internet and more complex apps, games etc. we need more storage today than ever before. Who is to say that we won't be needing 10TB in about a decade's time? :dunno: Remember the time when an entire Operating System used to come in a few floppy drives? Windows 3.1 (16 bit) came on six DMF floppies with a capacity of 1.68MB each in 1992! Yes, that's MB and not GB :hehe: Windows NT 3.1 came on twenty-two (in '93). And Windows 95 (32 bit) on 13 :P Compared to that, XP came in a 700MB CD and was around ~600MB or thereabouts. Today, the 64 bit D/L for Win8 is around 4GB! :o Go figure! ;) The same obviously applies to games and videos as well :) That means just 15 years ago, the biggest selling mainstream OS was around 20MB in size :yes: Would you ever have thought back then that you'll need 1TB of storage even in low end home PC's by 2012? Most high end ones btw, are build with multiple 1/1.5/2TB drives in RAID along with an SSD boot drive of 128/256 GB capacity ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 @calguyhunk, I totally get the historical precedent, but between cloud services and the shift toward phones and tablets (away from PCs with hard drives), among consumers I think it's mainly going to be the hardcore types (many here, of course) who are going to be salivating at a 10TB drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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