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Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-whole-lotta-nekkid dept.

samdu writes "Hitachi has announced plans to release a 7200 RPM 3.5 inch 500 GB hard drive in the first quarter of this year." Maybe this one won't require a new motherboard to use. I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.

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  1. yay! by ikea5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    More porn, yay!

    1. Re:yay! by darc · · Score: 4, Funny

      Better yet, wait about a year, and you'll have a massively sized hard drive in the palm of your hand for iPorn. Hmm. On second thought, scratch that thought, it sounded alot worse than it was supposed to.

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  2. Yay....but by bwcarty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it be big enough to install Longhorn on?

  3. A Fairy Tale by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    One day Hitachi invented a 500 gigabyte drive. The RIAA said "The public is evil, that's 100,000 5 MB MP3s!" Then the MPAA cried "The public is evil, that's over seven hundred 700 MB xvid movies!" So their lobbyists went to Washington to get these high capacity drives made illegal. And their shareholders lived happily ever after.

    The End

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  4. Re:Rooms full of drives by GoofyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 48 six-foot by 4-foot cabinets
    >Now I can hold a TB in one hand...
    >I like this decade better.

    Because you are now on steroids?

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  5. Re:I continue to be amazed.... by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just where to they squeeze these extra bits from on the same size platter?

    It's actually a compression algorithm. You know that computers store information as a series of ones and zeroes, right? Well, they just added a driver that writes only the ones, not the zeroes, instantly doubling the storage space.

    After that, it's been a matter of building the drives with smaller and smaller pencils to write those ones side-by-side. When hard disks were first introduced, they used a standard #2 pencil sharpened down to the eraser, but eventually they moved to mechanical pencils, then realized they could use the mechanical pencil lead without the pencil at all.

    Today, special microscopic pencils can be built one molecule at a time. The "eraser threshold" (currently the smallest one is 0.00003 centimeters in diameter) is a key factor in manufacturing drives.