Seagate Claims HDD Storage Capacity Record
Just when you thought they couldn't get any bigger, cheaper or faster, Seagate steps out and says, think again... Imagine a RAID 0 array with a pair of 2.5TB drives. That ought to be enough room for your 80s-Music-Flock-of-Seagulls collection...
"Seagate Technology, citing major research
and development strides in improving areal density of hard drive disks, claimed
on Sept. 15 that it has set a data storage world record of 421G bits per square
inch in revealing the results of a magnetic recording demonstration.
A hard drive with that kind of areal capacity could carry as much as a 2.5TB of data - enough to store 41,650 hours (1,735 days, or 4.75 years) of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4,000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games. "
A hard drive with that kind of areal capacity could carry as much as a 2.5TB of data - enough to store 41,650 hours (1,735 days, or 4.75 years) of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4,000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games. "
4000 hours of digital video -- a little skimpy for the folks over at YouTube. Keep working on it Seagate, you're not quite there yet.
