Seagate pushes magnetic storage

Seagate has been pushing perpendicular storage technology to anyone who’ll listen for quite a while now, so when they do something that makes us sit up and take note, it tends to be genuinely noteworthy.

Seagate has now demonstrated its ability to write 421 gigabits of information per square inch of hard disc, an impressive feat indeed. This is due to its perpendicular storage, which allows for stacking of individual magnetic charges on the hard drive itself.

What is most interesting about Seagate’s disc storage is that this demonstration was made using currently available production equipment… meaning that drives capable of this kind of capacity could be available sooner rather than later. For anyone interested, 421Gb per square inch of HDD would amount to a laptop hard drive capable of storing up to 200GB… an enviable feat indeed.

For more information, check out the Ars Technica piece on perpendicular storage and Seagate’s new drives, here.