Post by Fish Troll on Oct 9, 2007 16:37:27 GMT -5
By 2011, the drive manufacturer Seagate is hoping to have hard drives capable of storing 5TB* of data on the market. These drives will use HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording), a technology that uses lasers to heat the platters so that more data can be fit on them. A few years later, they're hoping to release hard drives capable of storing upwards of 37.5TB of data.
Let's do the math**:
- If one MP3 is 5MB (rounded, as songs can range from 3.5 to 6 or 7), a 5TB hard drive could hold around 1,048,576 songs, assuming I did the math correctly.
- A full-length movie is roughly 700MB, so a 5TB hard drive could hold around 7,489 feature-length movies.
- A photo from a typical digital camera is generally anywhere from 5 to 20MB, so the drive could hold anywhere from 52,428 to 1,048,576 photos.
That's just for the 5TB drive. I'll let someone else calculate the 37.5TB drive. The day that we look back at devices that hold anything measured in GB and laugh approaches sooner than we think.
So, how long do you think it'd take you to fill one up?
tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=5520110&page=5
* For those who aren't too technical-minded, 1TB (terabyte) = 1,024GB.
** Math assumes the drive is empty and extra, not holding an OS
Let's do the math**:
- If one MP3 is 5MB (rounded, as songs can range from 3.5 to 6 or 7), a 5TB hard drive could hold around 1,048,576 songs, assuming I did the math correctly.
- A full-length movie is roughly 700MB, so a 5TB hard drive could hold around 7,489 feature-length movies.
- A photo from a typical digital camera is generally anywhere from 5 to 20MB, so the drive could hold anywhere from 52,428 to 1,048,576 photos.
That's just for the 5TB drive. I'll let someone else calculate the 37.5TB drive. The day that we look back at devices that hold anything measured in GB and laugh approaches sooner than we think.
So, how long do you think it'd take you to fill one up?
tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=5520110&page=5
* For those who aren't too technical-minded, 1TB (terabyte) = 1,024GB.
** Math assumes the drive is empty and extra, not holding an OS
