Manufacturers of hard drives in conjunction with partners is continuously developing new technologies to support the tendency to increase the density of recording information. It is believed that the so-called technology "perpendicular recording" has exhausted its possibilities at the turn of the density of 1 terabit per square inch. Raise the bar to 5 terabits per square inch magnetic recording technology is designed heated using a laser beam to heat the working area of the magnetic plate. In addition, work is underway to establish a structured magnetic storage.
Seagate in the pages of a corporate blog talked about its participation in the conference InterMag 2015, brought together all stakeholders in the improvement of magnetic recording technology to market participants in China. The participants of the conference was offered a report on the magnetic recording technology with a point heated (HDMR or heated-dot magnetic recording). According to forecasts of Seagate, its use will raise the recording density up to 10 terabits per square inch. The technology is a combination of magnetic recording heated and structured magnetic media.
In the meantime, the introduction HDMR a thing of the future, Seagate technology demonstrator HAMR an example of RAID and eight hard drives that work with multiple video streams for three days without a single failure. Seagate promises to selected customers start deliver hard drives with the technology of magnetic recording heated already in 2017, and mass production will be launched in 2018.