New high capacity HDDs

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/02/seagate-...l-distribution/

 

Seagate - the answer to digital distribution?

 

Posted Jan 2nd 2007 1:00PM by Justin Murray

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

 

When thinking of gaming, the companies that make the storage medium are rarely thought of. Seagate, however, is offering up an interesting view of the future; a future that could effect the way we buy our games.

 

According to Seagate, they are working on a technology that will drastically increase the amount of data we store on hard drives. Using a technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), the company expects to be able to shove 50 TB of information into a single square inch of drive space, or around 300 TB of information on a standard 3.5" drive. With that kind of space, the entire Library of Congress can be stored ... without any compression.

 

The technology is expected to become commercially viable in a scant three years, by 2010. This means we may be seeing the Xbox 720 and PS4 being entirely based around digital distribution or fully installed console games, mostly eliminating ugly load times and noisy disk drives. With that kind of space, we may never have to worry about filling it up; 300 TB can hold around 6,144 50 GB Blu-ray disks (or the entire Library of PS through PS3 games that could ever be created with room to spare).

[zacoz]

We must rise up in opposition...They spell the end of the LUK and the Beta Team....With that sort of storage space, who would want to burn little tiny DVD/HD/Blu-ray discs

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

300TB is a staggering amount of storage space. Assuming my maths is correct, that's (roughly) around 480,000 CDs or 35,000 DVDs worth of data. 10 years ago a 500 megabyte drive was huge. Just imagine what we could see in another ten.

[lfcrule1972]

Rutting rodents in 3d quality ?