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Today, the famous manufacturers of hard drives – Seagate and Western Digital promise soon surprise the world with dozens or even hundreds of hard drives TB
So far, Seagate can boast a 14 TB Barracuda Pro hard drive capacities. This is already a considerable achievement, although the company has already stated that soon the drive will be released to the market in 48 TB, and by 2025 a disk of at least 100 TB will appear. As meticulous journalists, relying on leaked secret data, in such unique devices will use magnetic recording with heated – HAMR, i.e. hybrid technology with magneto-optical the principle of writing and purely magnetic – when reading, which will allow increase the capacity of this type of hard drive many times. Bye drive there is no such technology on the market, however, by the end of this year they must appear with Seagate partners for testing.
But the company Western Digital may well boast modern MAMR technology in the manufacture of hard drives then is not recorded using a laser, as is the case in the system HAMR, and through microwaves. The first commercial hard drives of this kind Type of company management promises to deliver in 2019. Here too traced plans for the release of discs with dozens, and then hundreds of terabytes of capacity.
True, supporters of laptops and other mobile devices are unlikely whether they can rejoice in such innovations, since both technologies can be called “gluttonous” in terms of electricity consumption. A here for stationary computers – it will be just right. Prices even preliminary, to new drives have not yet been disclosed.
However, as experts say in the development of modern data storage in the development of similar Winchester drives, things can change dramatically as scientists are constantly working to find for this goals something more perfect and simple, and not only voluminous, but also eternal in terms of the safety of recorded information, and not very expensive for the consumer …
