Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced a Modern storage technology give up for a density of 230 Gbit per inch . For us consumers , this means we ’ll start insure 3.5″ heavy drives with a 1 TB capacity in 2007 ( not too hard to think ) , and Microdrives with 20 GB capacities . Expect Apple ’s product announcement of an “ iPod mini pic shuffle ” in the near future tense . Also , here ’s a quote from the HGST rep that made me guffaw :
Toshiba has commercialized a 0.85 column inch punishing drive using a perpendicular recording system , but this eliminates the merit of the “ large capacity ” face of hard drives . We think 1″ is modest enough .
He ’s sort of right , but “ enough ” is a damn dangerous word .
Press Release[HGST ]
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