News HGST claims double-density hard drive breakthrough

I got quite excited about this until " isn't quite ready".

Still - first post. Yeah!

 

When can we start calling them Western Digital? That first sentence is a bit of a mouthful.

 

8Tb, 10Tb HDD's?

Wonder what the warranty will be like? Not what it use to be.

 

Well, since those are just 1TB and 1.25TB respectively, I'd expect they're probably around the same length as those for 1-3TB today.

 

I guess I'll wait for High Density HDDs...

 

They're looking towards the end of the decade? Alot can happen tech-wise in 7 years, much that will no doubt make this announcement pointless.

 

One day when we get down to Picometer then femtometer manufacturing, then what? Does the Integrated Circuit end? The mind boggles

 

for once my interest level didn't drop off entirely when i read that the tech was far from market, magnetic storage is one of the few markets where I've seen radical new tech adopted quickly and effectively (perpendicular recording).

@Jimbob: at some point in the next few manufacturing shrinks we will have to go sub-atomic via spintronics (using electron spin to represent bits), can't imagine what comes after that, maybe nothing, but i doubt it.

 

in a decades time we will be able to store data in our living tissue. pls come sooner.

imagine, living tissue, when u want to delete certain data u just need to take a shower ha

 

As yougotkicked said we'll start using Quantum Physics.

 

If I had a penny for every time someone makes that mistake ....
The net is full of them: downlaod speeds being described in millibits per second (mbps) in stead of Megabytes per second (MB/s), GPU clocks referred to in milli hecto zepto (mhz) , rather than MegaHertz (MHz) ... even Windows measures file sizes in Kelvin Bytes.

If you're really being picky, I'd argue it's HDDs, not HDD's.