Cool! Some day, this guy
will be able to store all
his books on one disk!
Posted on 04/04/2005 7:38:52 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Japan`s Hitachi will introduce its next-generation hard-disk drives attained by a innovative novel approach that packs the tiny magnetic ones and zeros that are the basis for digital storage technology even closer together.
The innovative technology known as perpendicular recording because the tiny magnets that represent digits are placed upright, not end to end -- has been anticipated by the magnetic storage industry for more than 20 years.
Hitachi announced today that it will produce 230 gbits per square inch meaning it will introduce a 1 inch 20 GB drive.
While perpendicular recording has been talked about for years, Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi all claimed to have cracked it (as opposed to longitudinal) storage methods last year.
All are working on 1 inch and 1.8 inch size perpendicular drives, and are also forcing to bring the new devices to market.
In contrast, competitor Hitachi sees drives based on the new innovative method with areal densities of around 230G bits per square inch in 2007, best said. Such a density would make the 1T-byte, 3.5-inch drive and 20G-byte, 1-inch drive possible, he said.
Hitachi`s first drives are likely to offer a more conservative storage density of about 120G bits per square inch and be available later this year. The company is currently field testing a 100GB, 2.5-inch drive based on an 80G bits per square inch version of the technology, said Best.
waiting for Gel drives that store data on the fatty tissue of the human body and access by induction.
You got a patent?
just thought of it. gotta figure out how to make it werk in order to get a patent, don't I?
Cool! Some day, this guy
will be able to store all
his books on one disk!
One terabyte? That's a lot of porn.
It's still only a small fraction of my collection.
01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101001 01100111 01100111 01101001 01101110 00100111 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 00101110
I think I have that much just in H:\kinky\fetish\foot\hairy . . .
Total memory of my first computer: 3800 bytes.
One can never be too rich or too thin or have too much storage.
I have been operating on that theory....just bought 2 Maxtor 250 Gigabyte 7200 rpm devices that have 16 M buffer and data transfer rate of 133 MBps.... for 100$ each...not sure what I will do with them and where to put them however.
Hitachi To Produce 1 Terabyte Desktop Drives ...expected available late 2005.
That's Steven King, of course.
Wow. Great price!
My main PC has a Maxtor 250Gb (paid $159 last year) partitioned into three 80Gb NTFS partitions that is a slave to my Maxtor 40Gb C:\ drive.
I do backups over USB v2.0 to a Maxtor external 120 Gb drive.
And yet....I feel I need more. Maybe a RAID setup will be my project this summer....hmmmm.
well that's just great, more tiny stuff. Soon computers and keyboards will be so small nobody will be able to use them.
Already I can't see my cell phone, never mind actually dial a number on it. They are going to have to open up "Mr. Big and Tall" computer's for big people stores.
Coolermaster CMStacker Full Tower case....
It will hold a LOT!!!!
It was some kind of a promotion at CompUSA that I heard about on one of the forums....I was out of the house in about 15 minutes...to hit the 405 for a 10 minute drive..
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