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Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
Seagate recently published its long-term technology roadmap revealing plans to produce ~50 TB hard drives by 2026 and 120+ TB HDDs after 2030. In the coming years, Seagate is set to leverage usage of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), adopt bit patterned media (BPM) in the long term, and to expand usage of multi-actuator technology (MAT) for high-capacity drives. This is all within the 3.5-inch form factor…
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OvermindDL1
Gull, or a 10 meg drive was a $2000 luxury, back in early 1980’s money!
Then again, people need these 120TB drives nowadays to be able to install things like the modern COD’s, lol… ^.^;
kokolegorille
I do remember a time when having a 20mb hdd (yes, it’s mb, not gb) was a luxury.
That makes me feel old 
davearonson
I remember when a 5mb hdd, i.e., any hdd, was a luxury! As opposed to two floppy drives, one to hold your program or OS, and one for the data. Getting along with just one floppy was doable but enough of a pain to justify a second one – or cassette tape storage if you just couldn’t afford another floppy.
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