Seagate announced the creation of a hard disk platter with a storage density of 1 terabit per square inch. The achievement was made using heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), the next-generation recording technology for HDDs. The company says the first generation of HAMR drives will likely offer more than double the capacity of today's HDDs, this means up to 6TB for 3.5" HDDs and 2TB for 2.5" models. In the near future, HAMR promises to deliver 3.5" HDDs with a storage capacity of 30TB to 60TB, and 2.5" HDDs with 10TB to 20TB of storage space.

Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double the storage capacity of today