Well, I was surfing Legion Hardware a few mins ago and was checking out the latest news. Hitachi is planning to make 4TB hard drives from as early as 2011. I mean 4TB!! Thats almost 4100GB… I am not too sure if we as users will ever need that much amount of storage, but web hosting companies will surely love this new technology. Anyways, here is what efluxmedia has to say about it:

Hitachi Ltd. announced that its hard drive division is going to push way past today’s storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011. Researchers at the company created the world’s smallest disk drive heads in the 30-nanometer to 50-nanometer range, or about 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair.

In fact, the entire industry is reverting back to the giant magnetoresistance, or GMR hard drive head technology it used about ten years ago. The initial application of this physical effect maxed out and the industry had to replace it with tunnel magnetoresistance read heads, or TMR.

The company, which bought IBM’s hard drive division recently, will report at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo that it has made heads 30nm and 50nm wide that had signal-to-noise ratios of 30-40 dB.

France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg just days ago received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work in the field of nanotechnology. They observed a quantum mechanical effect called Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) which occurred in thin film structures composed of alternating ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic metal layers.

Comment posted by Teros
at 11/27/2007 1:48:26 PM

I just hope my brother doesn’t want one to store all his anime on.