Toshiba develops a new hard-drive technology

Toshiba claims that it has come up with hard drives that has higher storage capacity than the current storage medium for the laptops.

This is in view of the research that was conducted with the bit-patterned media which is a magnetic storage technology that was built for the future hard disk drives. The drives that are used these days come with magnetic material that is spread over the surface of the disk. And bits of data are stored over several magnetic grains.

This technology divides the surface that is meant for recording in to number of tiny bits. Each of the bit consists of few magnetic grains. The tiny bits resembles tiny spheres that are placed next to each other.

Magnetic bits are used to store data. One bit of data is stored on one magnetic bit.

Toshiba claims that its engineers have designed a media sample where the magnetic bits are arranged in the form of rows. The gaps and rows between them act as markers which mark the storage of data.

Further information regarding the development will be disclosed at The Magnetic Recording Conference on Wednesday which begins in San Diego.

This sample media built by Toshiba is in its prototype stage. This drive is expected to hit the market around 2013.