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The fight for the future of the disk drive

2019; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 56; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mspec.2019.8594796

1939-9340

Amy Nordrum,

Advanced Data Storage Technologies

For most of the past 50 years, the areal density of hard disks-a measure of how many bits of data that engineers can squeeze into a given area-increased by an average of nearly 40 percent each year. Lately, though, that rate has slowed to around 10 percent. Everyone who works on magnetic storage is well aware of this problem, but only in the past year or so have executives from Seagate Technology and Western Digital, the leading manufacturers of hard drives, very publicly split on how to solve it. In back-to-back announcements in October 2017, Western Digital pledged to begin shipping drives based on what is known as microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) in 2019, and Seagate said it would have drives that incorporate heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) on the market by 2020.