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Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011

Posted by kdawson on from the behind-your-gmr-let-there-be-found-your-gmr dept.

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.

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  1. Thats a lot of porn! by Zantetsuken · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know most people think they don't need that much, but still, thats a helluva lot of porn!

  2. Re:Man by ThirdPrize · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's in this folder of yours "Cowboy Kneel"? Hmmmm ...

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