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Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011
zhang1983 writes "Hitachi says its researchers have successfully shrunken read heads in hard drives to the range of 30-50 nanometers. This will pave the way for quadrupling today's storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011." Update: 10/15 10:39 GMT by KD : News.com has put up a writeup and a diagram of Hitachi's CPP-GMR head.
Don't forget the "finally something to hold all my pr0n" posts...
30-50 metric nanometers is not as small as 30-to-50 *2^-30* meters, so you purchase one of these drives and they rip you off with a head bigger than the size you expect.
UT2004. ~8 GB, and that's with very few mods/etc. installed.
UT.
Two thousand and..
FOUR.
Notice, it's 2007 now, and shortly it's going to be 2008. Notice that video cards keep getting better and better, and are using larger and larger textures.
Hi, Bill Gates called, he wants his laughable predictions on "X ought to be enough for anybody!" back.
I know most people think they don't need that much, but still, thats a helluva lot of porn!
"4 terabytes ought to be enough for anybody,..."
What's in this folder of yours "Cowboy Kneel"? Hmmmm ...
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...as well as implementing a redundant RAID. Is that like an ATM Machine? Or a PIN Number?Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
In other words: Where's my flying car?!
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(I couldn't help it, the Devnul made me do it!)
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