Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

2 of 372 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Am I the only one... by AbRASiON · · Score: 0, Troll

    "who likes hearing harddrives do their work? Solid-state storage is too quiet, "

    Die, in a fire please or at least seek help.

  2. Re:Am I the only one... by AbRASiON · · Score: 0, Troll

    LOL Flamebait, ok so someone is PRO noise in a computer and it's not marked troll?
    Come the fuck on people, think about this, advocating a noisy computer? Something some of us older users have been striving to avoid ever since we sold our Amiga's and C64's

    Noisy disks indeed, mark the original authors post as either, retarded, over-rated, troll or just plain lunacy, I'm outright insulted such a post would even make it to text on a website.

    WHILE WE'RE AT IT, LET'S BRING BACK FLOPPY DRIVES!