Terabyte desktop mainstream by 2007

**40sondacurb** · 04-05-2005, 12:36 PM

Japanese firm Hitachi is introducing hard drives that provide up to a terabyte of storage in a 3.5-inch drive size.

The main key is the perpendicular recording system instead of the traditional horizontal recording method used in today's normal hard drives. With this new technique, it is possible to produce 230GB of recording space per square inch, compared to 120GB with today's current hard drive systems.

Hitachi says a group of its employees is testing the technology.

According to Boersenreport, Hitachi expects to release a 1TB drive by the end of the year, and analysts predict perpendicular recording will become mainstream by 2007.

**LoneWolf071** · 04-05-2005, 08:44 PM

this is good... Meaning that a standard HDD could be about 3 TB, which is a LOT...

**Sarkast** · 04-05-2005, 09:05 PM

How do you figure 3Tb for a "standard" HDD ?

04-05-2005, 12:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
40sondacurb Don't be a menace Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,285 OS: Vista sp2	Terabyte desktop mainstream by 2007 Japanese firm Hitachi is introducing hard drives that provide up to a terabyte of storage in a 3.5-inch drive size. The main key is the perpendicular recording system instead of the traditional horizontal recording method used in today's normal hard drives. With this new technique, it is possible to produce 230GB of recording space per square inch, compared to 120GB with today's current hard drive systems. Hitachi says a group of its employees is testing the technology. According to Boersenreport, Hitachi expects to release a 1TB drive by the end of the year, and analysts predict perpendicular recording will become mainstream by 2007.

04-05-2005, 08:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
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