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Beyond Nobel, Hard Drives Get Smart

Posted by Zonk on from the paging-mr.-adams-mr.-adams-to-the-security-shoe dept.

mattnyc99 writes "Giant magnetoresistance got its day in the sun when it won the Nobel Prize in physics last week—and when Hitachi rode that spotlight by announcing they'd have a 4-terabyte desktop hard drive by 2011. It's about time says Glenn Derene over at Popular Mechanics, in what amounts to an ode to the rise and future of super hard drive capacity. From his great accompanying interview with data storage visionary and computer science legend Mark Kryder: 'To get to 10 Tbits per square inch will require a drastic change in recording technology ... Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung ... are currently working on this 10-terabits-per-square-inch goal, which would enable a 40-terabyte hard drive.'"

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  1. Don't panic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows Future XP Gee Whiz Penultimate Enterprise Edition®© will have no problem filling those drives.

  2. Re:When is it going to stop? by Daimanta · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words: "1TB ought to be enough for anybody"

    We know how that ended ;)

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  3. 40-terabyte hard drive by Nonillion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, in 10 years well be bitching because we wont have enough space for a decent Windows xx or Linux xx install. I must be getting old, because I remember asking how on earth could you fill a 40 Megabyte hard drive.

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  4. Filesystem Checking by rhoder · · Score: 2, Funny

    this filesystem has been mounted 32 time, checking filesystem.
    634 Hours Remaining.

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  5. Re:Steady March of Progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    60 years isn't enough. I seek through most of my porn looking for the kinks I like. I probably only watch 2 minutes of porn in a 30 minute video.

  6. Danger! by RowanS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Giant magnetoresistance got its day in the sun when it won the Nobel Prize in physics last week--and when Hitachi rode that spotlight by announcing they'd have a 4-terabyte desktop hard drive by 2011.
    Oh my god! Four terabytes of sentences like that would contain over 6 x 10^10 mixed metaphors. Crammed into a single 3.5" drive bay the figurative density would be so great that the drive would collapse into a metaphorical black hole, sucking in all nearby figures of speech, similes and allusions. Somebody stop them!