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Rationality, power politics or capitalism: What drives Trump’s trade war comes via ChinaTechNews.com.
Despite predictions, HDDs are here to stay and increasing in capacity
Seagate recently sold one exabyte of HAMR storage to two hyperscalers
The “tens of thousands of drives” likely cost between $33 and $35 million
Although the likes of Pure Storage, IBM, and Meta believe the writing is on the wall for hard drives, the technology doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon.
CEO of World’s largest HDD vendor said it sold tens of millions of USD worth of drives to two cloud computing firms comes via ChinaTechNews.com.
Chinese researchers are working to develop molecular hard drives with high capacity
The drives use organometallic molecules to boost data density and efficiency
A conductive atomic force microscope tip reads and writes molecular data
Chinese researchers are exploring the potential of organic materials to develop a new type of hard drive that could potentially store six times the amount of data compared to current mechanical models.
A HDD with 6x more capacity than rivals? That’s what Chinese scientists are exploring thanks to molecular hard disk drives comes via ChinaTechNews.com.
