News Hard drive density advances face diminishing returns — 30TB+ drives gain just 6.6% capacity with SMR: Report

[Admin]

Blocks & Files studies SMR and PMR HDDs at high capacities, comparing PMR HDDs to their slightly higher-capacity SMR cousins. However, the trend of improvement drops off sharply once a certain TB threshold is reached, potentially due to recording technology.

Hard drive density advances face diminishing returns — 30TB+ drives gain just 6.6% capacity with SMR: Report : Read more

 

[usertests]

If it means that SMR is dropped entirely, good.

 

[peachpuff]

I hear BSMR can get 50% capacity increases...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The sooner we get to Bit Patterned Media:

Spoiler: Bit Patterned Media, the future of storage.

The better IMO.
eff this Shingled Magnetic Recording Non-sense.

 

[bit_user]

I hear BSMR can get 50% capacity increases...

And what's that? ...or is this meant to be some kind of joke? (BS Magnetic Recording)

 

[peachpuff]

And what's that? ...or is this meant to be some kind of joke? (BS Magnetic Recording)

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