Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which the company expects will let it deliver small form-factor hard drives with up to four terabytes of space for desktop PCs and up to one terabyte for notebooks. The leap, which Hitachi projects will occur by 2011, would effective quadruple the current storage capacities of today’s PCs. The company announced its breakthrough at the 8th Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan Monday.
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Hitachi Paves the Way to 4-Terabyte Hard Drives
Posted by: Chris Maxcer October 15, 2007 11:54 AMHitachi Global Storage Technologies has developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which the company expects will let it deliver small form-factor hard drives with up to four terabytes of space for desktop PCs and up to one terabyte for notebooks. The leap, which Hitachi projects will occur by 2011, would effective quadruple the current storage capacities of today’s PCs. The company announced its breakthrough at the 8th Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan Monday.