Solid State drives 128 Terabytes by 2018 and mass produced Hard Drives at 100TB by 2025

Seagate plans to build the first HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording ) HDD prototypes towards the end of next year. Initially the drives will be produced in admittedly pedestrian capacities, for testing of the technology. However the head of HAMR development at Seagate, Jan-Ulrich Thiele, expects the technology to be able to facilitate the mass production of 100TB capacity drives by 2025.

Toshiba said SSDs with its 3D NAND will reach capacities of 128TB SSDs sometime in 2018.

SOURCES – Hexus, Heise