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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.

3 of 372 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The bigger problem by James_G · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I've read this post now. How do I go about deleting it?

  2. Re:Waiting for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heh. For every movie you buy I download two. The problem is I'd like to actively hurt the MAFIAA, but can't think of a way yet apart from encouraging others to download/copy.

  3. Re:I don't want more space... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Brought to you by the department of redundancy department...