Japan develops 24TB Hard Drives!

This is excellent – I am getting so tired of having to upgrade my hard drive every year to make room for more of my Media Library. A 24TB drive should last forever – I hope.

“Japanese researchers have developed a new HDD technology that could boost the capacity of hard disk drives to 24TB.

Essentially, when you are recording on a magnetic material, bits (a collection of magnetized particles) are laid out end-to-end on disk platters. Storage Capacity is generally increased by decreasing the size of the magnetic grains that make-up data bits. As the magnetic grains became smaller or arranged more efficiently, more data could then be stored on the disk. The Japanese researchers have developed an ultra-high density paterning technology based on a self-arranged phenomenon of polymer materials. The materials allowed for the formation of accurate magnetic strustures sized just 10nm. ”

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