Hitachi Announces 1TB Desktop Hard Drive

In early 2000, I declared it the “decade of the Gigabyte.” Looks like 2010 may have a shot at becoming the decade of the terabyte. Today Hitachi announced a 1TB hard drive expected to hit store shelves by 2007. Perfect timing since my whole video and music collection will be fully digitized by then and I’ll need all the space I can get!

“Using a perpendicular recording system, Hitachi says that they have achieved the industry’s highest data density at 230 gigabits per square inch, which doubles that found in today’s longitudal drives. The company adds that through perpendicular recording a 10-fold increase in data density is possible over the course of the next 5-7 years.

‘”We are at the cusp of the most significant hard drive technology transition of the past decade, and it’s one that holds so much promise for the hard drive and consumer electronics industries,” said Jun Naruse, CEO, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. “As the biggest supplier of small-form-factor hard drives, 2.5-inch and below, consumers’ demand for storing more data on smaller devices has provided a strong impetus for us to pursue perpendicular recording with a greater sense of urgency.”

“Hitachi says perpendicular recording will be implemented in commercial drives by 2007.” Source: Newsbug.net