Hard Drives with much bigger storage capacity

Toshiba claims that they have discovered the next step regarding magnetic hard drives, which allows them to have a much bigger storage capacity. The technology is named Bit Patterned Media and allows the sharing of the entire surface of a platan into magnetic bits, each with the dimensions of a few  magnetic crumbs. And each magnetic bit is the corespondent of  a data bit.

The current hard drives however, without this sharing, have a bit of data for every few hundreds magnetic crumbs. And the new magnetic bites from Toshiba are arranged in rows, with empty spaces between them to be able to be read more correctly. Their prototype had a 2.5 TB density per square inch, while the maximum Toshiba reached with the normal technology is 0.5 TB for every square inch.

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