Hard drive capacity will be increased 5 times?

Seagate Momentus 5400.3

Seagate Technology LLC has officially started offering a new range of hard drives for laptops. This type of hard drive is believed to overcome all barriers opening new directions in improving hard drive capacity .

Seagate's new technology allows to arrange data on the hard drive vertically instead of horizontally as before. Therefore, it is possible for this type of hard drive applications to store more data while the size does not change.

Since the first type of hard drive appeared in the world in 1956, all kinds of data are arranged horizontally on a flat disk surface. Thus, to increase storage capacity engineers often have to find measures to reduce the size of magnetic 'elements' that are responsible for storing data.

But for some types of hard drives with capacities up to 500GB, perhaps the work of shrinking these magnetic elements is a limitation. These parts cannot be smaller, they tend to magnetic contact with the elements located next to them. The consequences are the risks to data loss.

But by the vertical axis of data storage, engineers were able to increase the storage capacity for hard drive types in just the same area as before, but the risk of data loss was reduced. significantly less.

Seagate's new hard drive - Momentus 5400.3 - has been available on the market since yesterday with a maximum capacity of 120GB to 160GB and has a reference price of $ 325. Seagate also plans to use the new storage technology for portable hard drives - a 1-inch-sized hard drive - or hard drive for size PCs 3.5-inch.

It is predicted that in the next 3 to 5 years, this new storage technology can help maximize the storage capacity of hard drive types by up to 5 times.