Future Magnetic Recording Technologies

  • Authors:
  • Mark H. Kryder

  • Affiliations:
  • Seagate Research

  • Venue:
  • FAST '02 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Thermal instabilities of magnetic recordings pose a limit to the areal density that can be achieved with currently popular longitudinal magnetic recording. Perpendicular recording is expected to make possible higher areal densities than the current longitudinal recording, but will likely extend the limits by an order of magnitude at most. Other technologies, such as patterned media recording and thermally assisted recording, are needed if the trend toward ever-increasing areal density and ever-decreasing cost per gigabyte is to be sustained. This talk will discuss possible avenues for continued growth in capacity and performance of magnetic disc drives.