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Storage density beyond 10 Tb/in2 possible for heat-assisted magnetic recording

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  Storage density beyond 10 Tb/in2 possible for heat-assisted magnetic recording Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 14:27 -0500
    Re: Storage density beyond 10 Tb/in2 possible for heat-assisted magnetic recording jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-03-22 19:33 +0000

#564602 — Storage density beyond 10 Tb/in2 possible for heat-assisted magnetic recording

Storage density beyond 10 Tb/in2 possible for heat-assisted magnetic 
recording
> http://phys.org/news/2016-03-storage-density-tbin2-heat-assisted-magnetic.html


> Global demand for data storage is constantly increasing, driven by
> new technologies such as Big Data and the Internet of Things, as well
> as personal and enterprise storage. The hard disk drives that
> currently store the majority of the world's data have storage
> densities of just under 1 Terabit per square inch (Tb/in2). One of
> the promising technologies being researched for increasing the
> storage density is heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which
> uses lasers to heat individual magnetic grains that are just a few
> nanometers long. The method requires controlling heat and magnetism
> on a tiny scale, which has made developing HAMR very challenging.
>
> In a new paper published in Applied Physics Letters, a team of
> physicists from TU Wien in Vienna, Austria, has developed simulations
> that realistically model the HAMR write process.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Storage density beyond 10 Tb/in2 possible for heat-assisted magnetic 
> recording

Yet another breathless press release.


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Jim Pennino

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