Seagate achieves 6.9TB per platter capacity breakthrough, enabling potential 55TB-69TB hard drives
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Summary
Seagate has achieved a significant breakthrough in hard drive technology by developing a 6.9TB per platter capacity in its laboratory, which could enable 55TB to 69TB hard drives. This represents more than double the capacity of current platters used in their 30TB HAMR HDDs. The advancement demonstrates continued progress in storage density for data center applications, though it remains experimental and not yet available in commercial products.
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· 4 pulledSeagate is continuing to break barriers on how many TBs can be stored on a single hard drive and has achieved a whopping 6.9TB per platter in its laboratory
Seagate's experimental 6.9TB platter boasts more than double the capacity of platters it uses in official products right now
Hard drives remain a vital component in building high-capacity storage solutions, especially in the data center
Seagate is squeezing as much capacity out of its HAMR technology as it can
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