Seagate’s New Hard Drive Has More Bits Than The Milky Way Has Stars

Seagate’s New Hard Drive Has More Bits Than The Milky Way Has Stars


Seagate’s latest hard drive has hit a milestone: it manages to squeeze in a data density of one terabit per square inch.

It uses some extremely complex heat-assisted magnetic recording to do that, and in the process doubles the storage capacity of current hard disks. If that’s not enough to get your head round, how about this: the hard disk contains more bits in a single square inch than the Milky Way has stars. [Segate]

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