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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. I don't want more space... by TwoBit · · Score: 4, Informative

    I want more reliability. Over the last ten years of using hard drives, I have about a 50% failure rate.

  2. Re:Waiting for... by jamiethehutt · · Score: 3, Informative

    # yum -y update; shutdown -r now;

    Next time do "# yum -y update && shutdown -r now" the && means that it will only run shutdown if yum reports successful completion, so if yum breaks you can see the errors. :D