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The coming hard drive capacity wall?

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Ray

Hard drives have been on a capacity tear lately what with perpendicular magnetic recording and tunneling magnetoresistive heads. As evidence of this, Seagate just announced their latest Barracuda XT, a 2TB hard drive with 4 platters with ~500GB/platter at 368Gb/sqin … Continue reading →

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