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Pelam on March 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives

Will all this be shingled or will that remain optional?

monocasa on March 18, 2021 | [–]

It'd almost have to be. None of their improvements in the article are around increasing the resolution of the write heads.

Pelam on March 18, 2021 | [–]

Hmm.. found this from 2016: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10470/the-evolution-of-hdds-i...

It seems that shingled recording (SMR) could still be the future, although the original article does not seem to mention it?

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