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Next-Gen HAMR Platters Promise 80TB Hard Drives

January 28, 2021 /
By Matthew Humphries

We’re about to get 20 terabyte hard drives, but the path looks clear to scale up to 80TB.

As the world’s demand for storage continues to grow, so does the need to find the next storage density breakthrough. It looks like one just happened, though, and it paves the way to 80TB hard drives.

As AnandTech reports, Japanese company Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) is the world’s largest manufacturer of hard drive platters, which are the disks stacked inside each drive to store the data. This week SDK announced it had improved upon Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology to allow for next-generation hard drives.

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