Saturday, January 8, 2011

HAMR or Path of the Jedi

Hard disk drive capacity is growing every year but not everybody knows what it takes to increase the capacity of modern HDD. You can buy a 3TB 3.5” drive now and manufacturers saying it’s not a limit of magnetic recording yet.
Let’s find out what would manufacturers need to do to produce not a 3TB drive but a 30TB one.

Monday, November 15, 2010

HDD from inside

If you were always wondering what is inside of a hard drive this article is right for you.

I’m going to tear down Seagate ST31000333AS drive. Here it is, our “Guinea pig”.