elmernag01: Seagate copies Samsung's notes, re-breaks areal-density barrier with 1TB HDD platters

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Seagate copies Samsung's notes, re-breaks areal-density barrier with 1TB HDD platters

What better way for Seagate to celebrate its $1.375 billion dollar purchase of Samsung's HDD division than to re-introduce the old firm's breakthrough? Seagate took the Samsung's 1TB platter prototypes and packed them into a real hard drive, bringing the new technology to market for the first time. These new drives will boast an areal-density of 625 gigabits (78.13GB) per square inch, scoring 1TB platters for the outfit's next generation of hard disks. Unfortunately, Seagate won't be cramming four of those 1TB plates into a single hard drive as Samsung originally planned, instead opting to debut the technology in a 3TB external drive under their GoFlex brand. No official specs this time around, but when the turkey was on Samsung's platter, it spun at 5,400 RPM with a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility.

Seagate copies Samsung's notes, re-breaks areal-density barrier with 1TB HDD platters originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 May 2011 23:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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