Next-gen hard drives include laser

[Undertoad]

Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives on their way

To achieve such a huge leap in density, Seagate had to use a technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)...

...the head seeks as normal, but whenever it wants to write data, the laser turns on.

mind*boggled

Just so you understand how small the magnetic bits are in a HAMR drive, one terabit per square inch equates to two million bits per linear inch; in other words, each site is just 12.7 nanometers long — or about a dozen atoms.

mind*severely*boggled

What would you use a 60TB drive to do?... I suppose I could hook a camera up to my body and record every single frame of every single day. That could end some arguments.

Shit's getting weird. 12 atoms worth to make a 0 or 1. That has to be a limit right there.