The number of bits per square inch of storage surface. It typically refers to magnetic disk and tape, where the number of bits per inch (bpi) times the number of tracks per inch (tpi) yields the areal ...

In a recent blog (100 TB HDDs And A New Spin On Storage) we saw the ASTC HDD technology road map showing projection for HDD areal density trends out into the next decade. Higher HDD areal densities ...

Seagate has announced a 6 TB hard disk drive for data center applications. While other companies, such as Western Digital ‘s HGST division have announced 6 TB drives using He-filled drives with ...

College Park, MD (April 19, 2011) — Using well-known patterned media, a team of researchers in France has figured out a way to double the areal density of information by essentially cutting the ...

In this podcast, Antony Adshead is joined by Jason Feist, senior vice-president for marketing in products and markets at Seagate, to look at how spinning disk can get to 40TB and 50TB. We talk about ...

Using well-known patterned media, a team of researchers in France has figured out a way to double the areal density of information by essentially cutting the magnetic media into small pieces and ...