Although SSDs are increasingly used, its high price hinders its expansion beyond high-end laptops. For its part, the traditional hard drive manufacturers have had no choice but to resume the war by getting a larger capacity disk. In the final months of last year, some manufacturers like Western Digital released to the market 3.5-inch models with 3 TB of capacity. Now it is Samsung who claims to have achieved the technology necessary to create discs with up to 4 TB.
The key is that, unlike other solutions, Samsung has increased the density of information stored on each disk platter, reaching a whopping 1 TB capacity per platter. Increasing the density is risky because a small error can have a major impact on the amount of lost data, even without taking into account that the read heads must also increase sensitivity. It is therefore assumed that Samsung will be able to reduce to the minimum these limitations before going to give an announcement like this.
But increased density does not only benefit the 3.5-inch hard drives, but 2.5-inch disks (typically for computers portable) may reach 1 TB capacity with higher access speeds. In fact, Samsung plans to launch soon a new unit of this type, with 32 MB of cache and support for SATA III. What is not known is when you will do as they have not provided such data.
The revival of this battle for the higher-capacity hard disk looks like it's going so as long as Samsung claims that with current technology it is possible to 10 TB. These capabilities may seem distant to us, but the tendency to store digital content on hard drives, and a growing number of multimedia content in high definition, you may even fall short in the not too distant future.
The key is that, unlike other solutions, Samsung has increased the density of information stored on each disk platter, reaching a whopping 1 TB capacity per platter. Increasing the density is risky because a small error can have a major impact on the amount of lost data, even without taking into account that the read heads must also increase sensitivity. It is therefore assumed that Samsung will be able to reduce to the minimum these limitations before going to give an announcement like this.
But increased density does not only benefit the 3.5-inch hard drives, but 2.5-inch disks (typically for computers portable) may reach 1 TB capacity with higher access speeds. In fact, Samsung plans to launch soon a new unit of this type, with 32 MB of cache and support for SATA III. What is not known is when you will do as they have not provided such data.
The revival of this battle for the higher-capacity hard disk looks like it's going so as long as Samsung claims that with current technology it is possible to 10 TB. These capabilities may seem distant to us, but the tendency to store digital content on hard drives, and a growing number of multimedia content in high definition, you may even fall short in the not too distant future.
