Hitachi Develops Advanced Hard Disk

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A hard disk drive unit of Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it has developed a technology that will set the stage for a one-terabyte 3.5-inch drive or a 20- gigabyte Microdrive.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc., based in San Jose, California, said it has achieved the industry's record areal density of 230 gigabits per square inch on perpendicular recording, a 100- year-old magnetic recording method.

The areal density is double the current highest longitudinal recording density, the company said.

The new technology will be implemented in commercial HDDs in 2007, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said. Perpendicular recording could boost data densities over longitudinal recording by 10 times when it is fully realized over the next five to seven years, it said.

Perpendicular recording has its roots in the late 19th century work of a Danish scientist who is considered the first person to magnetically record sound using the method. In the recording technology, data bits are in a vertical arrangement, taking up less space than those in a horizontal alignment in longitudinal recording.

The Mirodrive is a miniature HDD developed by International Business Machines Corp. of the United States.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 by combining Hitachi's HDD operations with IBM's Latest News about IBM HDD business, which the Japanese company acquired.

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[nsane]

it's ganna cost about the same as the amount of data it can hold, $600+, watch :D

screw it, $1,000+ :yes:

[Snake]

it's ganna cost about the same as the amount of data it can hold, $600+, watch :D

screw it, $1,000+ :yes:

lol, thats about right.

[erRor67]

19th century technology? Damn, talk about using 200 year old shit. :yes: