Seagate Showing Monster Hard Drive

Fancy a 2.5-Terabyte drive? That’s what Seagate are showing off at the IDEMA DISKON show right now, according to Techworld: a drive that holds an astonishing 421 Gigabits per square inch. That’s enough for a 2.5-Terabyte 3.5-inch hard drive or a 200GB notebook drive. This demo was done with existing technologies, but they aren’t going to stop there: in a few years, we’ll see new technologies (such as Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) that take the capacity even higher: up to 50 Terabits a square inch. The press release from Seagate with the details is here.