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| Hitachi Goes Vertical With New Hard Drive Tech |
| 2005-04-04 |
| Hitachi has broken the record for data density in a hard drive thanks to an innovative way of storing data. Most hard drives stores data by writing it onto the top of a disc horizontally. This new method allows the data to be written vertically into the disc, allowing much higher levels of storage... While traditional horizontal data writing is the predominant form of data storage researchers believe this technology will reach its limit at about 120 GB per inch squared. The new drives are capable of 230 GB per inch squared, compact enough to build a 20 GB mini iPod or a terabyte 3.5 inch drive. Hitachi believes the first of the new hard drives will be shipped by the end of this year as a 2.5 inch drive for notebooks or consumer devices... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 I remember this as old news too. Maybe they've just finally gotten around to making it commercially viable? |
| Posted by: Sheik Abu Bin Ali Al-Yahood 2005-04-04 9:50:50 PM |
| #1 Hitachi has broken the record for data density in a hard drive thanks to an innovative way of storing data. They're just getting around to this? I seem to remember reading an article that touched on just this concept as early as two or three years ago. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-04 9:28:21 PM |