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Firm claims next-generation hard disks about to be delivered
CRESTEC reckons it is about to become the mother of all next-generation hard disk technology, after its scientists managed developed a machine to fabricate the masters for ‘patterned media disks’, the name they’re giving to the new technology.
As a maker of electron beam lithography systems, Crestec has used this technology to create patterned media disks that can store half a terabit of data per sqare inch. Blimey, that’s really packing it in. But they say that modifying the lens system will make it possible to DOUBLE the density of data.
The beauty of this technique is that patterned media disks hold the bits on tiny, magnetically isolated islands, which allows data to be stored at higher densities.
Crestec's machine creates the disk master by burning tiny holes in concentric circles on a resistant material that’s spread on a silicon substrate. Each hole has a diameter of 10 nanometers. After e-beam processing, the substrate is etched, which creates pits in the silicon where there were holes. Currently, the machine spaces the pits 35nm apart.
The patterned media disk is made by pressing the master into a resin material, which creates a disk with tiny isolated islands. This is where the recording material is applied.
The creation of a mastering machine means that the birth of a next-generation hard disk, based on patterned media, is that much closer.
We’ve gone into the final stages now, so expect a lot of pushing and shoving and shouting. There's more in Crestec's pdf here. µ
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--[And the url is .jp Jason, so the title was poorly translated, that doesn't mean the technology doesn't work fine in japan,]--

I'm just worried that when it ships internationally it'll spell all the words wrong because the drive media has only been tested on storing Japanese characters. The "bstr" in "abstract" is too many consonants in a row for it to handle (Japanese tops out at 1 or 2 and then there's always a vowel) so hence you get read errors.

(Yes, I'm joking).
So how much is that really? half a terabit that's with controlbits and such and in bytes what? and how much surface area does a 3.5" HD have available?
Clear as mud this way :/
And the url is .jp Jason, so the title was poorly translated, that doesn't mean the technology doesn't work fine in japan, the researchers aren't into languages it seems, and file titles are never spellchecked on computers.

But of course every 6 months we get stories about those breakthroughs, for decades now, and they NEVER pan out when pre-announced like that.
The pdf is named CRESTEC abstruct.

Is that a bad sign, or just a foreign word that either means abstract or looks like it?