Seagate Reaches 1Tb Per Square Inch, Hard Drive to Reach 60TB Capacity
The current highest capacity internal hard drive that you can buy offers 3TB of storage space, which is huge. Soon you’ll be able to put even more data on one, thanks to Seagate’s recent achievement in data density.
The hard-drive maker announced today that it has become the first company to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, promising to double the current hard-drive’s capacity before the end of this decade. The company says its new storage technology will also allow hard drives to reach 60TB capacity within the next decade.
Just so you know how big of a milestone this is, a square inch is about the surface of a medium-size thumb. Now imagine you can put on that tiny area the amount of bit that’s much larger than the total number of stars in the Milky Way, which is estimated to be between 200 and 400 billion.
It will be interesting to see what a 60TB drive will cost. That amount of storage on a single drive is an amazing achievement.