Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 3.7.2008
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversSolid-state disks may be eating into the territory of traditional hard drives, particularly in laptops, but that doesn't mean spinning platters are on their last legs – particularly not at Hitachi.
Hard drive specialist Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is continuing to push HDDs to the limit, with a strong emphasis on increasing capacity and with a clear goal in mind.
Giant plans
The Japan-based company has stated that it plans to have a commercial 3.5-inch hard drive on the market that can hold 5TB by 2010. It aims to achieve this with write heads that use something called current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR).
CPP-GMR pushes data density above 1TB per square inch, a long-awaited threshold that promises drives many times larger than those available today.
Now, where was I?
As for what can be stored on such disks, Hitachi's Yoshihiro Shiroishi explains, "By 2010, just two disks will suffice to provide the same storage capacity as the human brain."
In other words, a next-generation hard drive will be able to recall that trip to the seaside in 1976, but never where it left the car keys last night.source:
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Comments(4)
who wants a hitachi deathstar?
this is good news. my 4 year old hitachi 300mb just died. still better than the luck
i've had with 500gb western digitals ... 3 died in less than a year of use ... looking
forward to no moving parts soon ... prolly only cost a couple grand...
right now i've got nearly 2tb of data stored on my home network. plus hundreds of dvds
burned with media and data.
my storage needs are growing at an ever incresing
rate. just for my home use. at my current rate, i'll need way more than 5tb by 2010.
but i guess i'll be doing what i do now and use multiple drives. get 6 drives raided up
for 25tb of space. yup, that'll probably be enough in 2010.
but the
consumer need for storage capacity (not to mention business needs) are beginning to grow
faster than the ability of companies to produce storage technology.
my capacity is less than 100 gb
i don't know what are you talking about.
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