Seagate 2.5 TB hard drives for 2009

thexfactor · September 15, 2006, 4:41pm

Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) has been praised as the technology to take traditional hard drives into the next phase and as an opportunity to further push the limits of an architecture that is expected to hit a natural border at some point in time. With the first PMR drive generation out the door, Seagate today provided a clearer vision on the capability of the technology. Speaking at the IDEMA DISKCON, chief technology officer Mark Kryder said that it has achieved a record storage density of 421 Gb/inch2. This number is up from 178 Gb/inch2 that is already mass produced by Hitachi today. The previous official record, 230 Gb/inch2, was set by Hitachi in April of 2005

Seagate’s currently highest mass-produced storage density is 133 Gb/inch2, but the company believes that this value will increase on a fast pace. 1.8" drives, the form factor used for example by higher-end portable audio players such as Apple’s Ipod could soon reach 275 GB. 2.5" notebook drives will grow to 500 GB and desktop drives to 2.5 TB - which is enough to store 41,650 hours of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games - at least by today’s standards

Source : Seagate envisions 2.5 TB desktop hard drives for 2009 | TG Daily

Rahul · September 15, 2006, 10:54pm

“At the IDEMA DISKON show in Santa Clara, California, Seagate demonstrated a magnetic recording device with a whopping 421 Gbits per square inch density. To put that in perspective, the company recently announced 160GB 5400.3 2.5” perpendicular notebook drives that have an areal density of 135 Gbits per square inch. Toshiba, the current commercial density leaders, recently demonstrated 2.5" hard drives with areal densities of 188 Gbits per square inch.

Seagate CEO Bill Watkins claims “Breakthroughs in areal density are enabling the digital revolution and clearly indicate that hard drives can sustain their advantage to meet the world’s insatiable demand for storage across a wide range of market segments.”

According to the press release put out by Seagate, the company claims a 1.8" disk drive produced on the same 421 Gbits per square inch technology would result in a 275GB hard drive. 2.5" drives on the density would level out around 500GB, and fully fledged 3.5" hard drives would be able to house a density of 2.5 terabytes. Perhaps even more exciting is that Seagate “anticipates that solutions at these density levels could begin to emerge in 2009.”

The leap to such densities would result in a three-fold increase of current areal densities. However, Seagate isn’t alone in this race. Earlier this year Hitachi put out a press release claiming we would see 1TB holographic drives from the company before the end of the year. However, both companies use Komag as the primary supplier of their high density platters – and it should not be a surprise if we see 1TB hard disk drives as well."

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thexfactor · September 16, 2006, 2:39am

Already posted http://www.techenclave.com/forums/seagate-2-5-tb-hard-drives-79341.html … merge

ANP · September 16, 2006, 5:02am

OMG…Just MindBlowing

thexfactor · September 16, 2006, 8:15am

Seagate is quite dense

hunt3r · September 16, 2006, 6:20pm

Big deal, and that too only in 2009. Flash memory is the next revolution. Seriously expect major leaps in the next few years.

thexfactor · September 16, 2006, 6:30pm

Flash drives will be good for applications, games and operating systems which require faster access times and higher bandwidth, however for storage purposes i think the harddrives will carry on for a while.