So I was curious what this 610Gb / in^2 means when it comes to GB / Platter that alot of people already know about.
Found a WD article that says their 160GB platters in 2.5 " drives (320GB Laptop drive) is the same as the 320GB platters in the 3.5" drives (WD6400AAKS) is listed at 250Gb / in^2
So by tht reasoning and math, a 610Gb/s areal density means we can expect a 780 (Call it 750) GB / platter drive in a 3.5" size. Thats means a 2.25 TB desktop drive when they eventually get this technology into a working product. Or a 750GB Laptop drive.
I would expect the newly announced Seagate? 1.5TB drive is 3 x 500GB platters which is using approx 400 Gb / in^2 technology.
So based on that, the jump doesn't seem all that impressive per say. Less than 2 years to go from 250Gb/in^2 to 400Gb/in^2 means we can expect 2TB Desktop drives and 1TB Laptop drives in 2011.
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So I was curious what this 610Gb / in^2 means when it comes to GB / Platter that alot of people already know about.
Found a WD article that says their 160GB platters in 2.5 " drives (320GB Laptop drive) is the same as the 320GB platters in the 3.5" drives (WD6400AAKS) is listed at 250Gb / in^2
So by tht reasoning and math, a 610Gb/s areal density means we can expect a 780 (Call it 750) GB / platter drive in a 3.5" size. Thats means a 2.25 TB desktop drive when they eventually get this technology into a working product. Or a 750GB Laptop drive.
I would expect the newly announced Seagate? 1.5TB drive is 3 x 500GB platters which is using approx 400 Gb / in^2 technology.
So based on that, the jump doesn't seem all that impressive per say. Less than 2 years to go from 250Gb/in^2 to 400Gb/in^2 means we can expect 2TB Desktop drives and 1TB Laptop drives in 2011.