200-300 TB Storage Space Pending

On Conceivably Tech, author Wolfgang Gruener explores the future of data storage in light of the recent advances in hard drive technologies suggesting that the current perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR) may be hitting its limits. Although PMR may hit just about an aereal storage of 1 Tb/inch2, says Gruener, heat assisted technology will take the industry into the range of 50 Tb/inch2.

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"What remains the same with new hard drive generations is their reliability. Today, it is recommended that hard drives should be replaced every 3 to 5 years. Considering the fact that even 1 TB drives can store huge amounts of data and a loss would be catastrophic, data security is a mounting problem. Imagine a 100 TB drive that potentially holds the data of multiple generations of your family would be lost. What would you do? Re said that we should not expect hard drives to improve their reliability in hardware. Instead, Seagate is pushing software innovation and is telling users to back up their data regularly.”

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