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Seagate Technology LLC has officially launched a new type of hard drive designed for laptops. This hard drive is expected to break through existing barriers and open new avenues for increasing hard drive capacity.
Seagate’s new technology allows data to be arranged vertically on the hard drive, as opposed to the traditional horizontal arrangement. This innovation enables hard drives utilizing this technology to store significantly more data without changing their physical size.
Since the first hard drive was introduced to the world in 1956, all data has been arranged horizontally on a flat disk surface. Consequently, to increase storage capacity, engineers have typically sought methods to reduce the size of the magnetic “elements” responsible for data storage.
However, with current hard drives reaching capacities of up to 500GB, shrinking these magnetic elements is becoming increasingly challenging. These elements cannot be reduced further as they tend to magnetically interact with adjacent elements, which poses a significant risk of data loss.
With the vertical data storage method, engineers have been able to enhance storage capacity for hard drives while maintaining a similar surface area as before, significantly reducing the risks associated with data loss.
Seagate’s new hard drive, the Momentus 5400.3, officially entered the market yesterday with capacities ranging from 120GB to 160GB, priced at approximately $325. Seagate also plans to apply this new storage technology to 1-inch hard drives for handheld devices and 3.5-inch hard drives for PCs.
It is predicted that within the next 3 to 5 years, this new storage technology could potentially increase the maximum storage capacity of hard drives by up to five times.
