Several decades of rapid progress in areal density advancement slowed significantly around 2010, because of noise related to smaller grain size of the disk media, thermal stability, and writability using available magnetic fields.
Nekoliko desetljeća brzog napretka u napredovanju prostorne gustoće značajno se usporilo oko 2010 zbog buke diska, toplinske stabilnosti i sposobnosti pisanja pomoću dostupnih magnetskih polja.