High Density Hard Drives

[b4u]

Hi,

I'm refreshing myself about hard drives, and need some memory refresh from you guys that are more up-to-date than me.

About some time ago (2 years?) there was the knowledge that hard drive technology was reaching it's limits. Something about the way that data was stored and retrieved, that was at a point where storage consistency was reaching a physical limit.

At the time, I remember something about a new way of organizing data, that would allow better data consistency and so bigger capacities.

Until know, I was, for that reason, very reluctant about going for a 1Tb disk. Nowadays, probably that problem was surpassed, and there are no problem getting a full 1Tb disk.

Am I right? Are those limitations solved by now? (I believe so, or there were no 1Tb and 1.5Tb disks available).

Can anyone refresh me about the name of the way-data-was-stored and the new method of storing it? (This was a complicated question ... even I don't fully understand what I'm asking for lol)

Thanks

 

[0roo0roo]

storagereview.com
perpendicular recording + google.
don't worry about it, they claim to be on their way to 10tb+

 

[b4u]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
storagereview.com
perpendicular recording + google.
don't worry about it, they claim to be on their way to 10tb+

* glup *

wow! 10tb

Nice.

Perpendicular Recording ... thats it! What was the previous one? Parallel Recording or something like that?

Edit:

Found it! Longitudinal Recording! Google is my friend


Thanks