Monday, October 15, 2007

4TB Desktop Hard drive, 2009 - Laptops to 1TB

From PC World:

Cram 4TB on Desktop Drives by 2009, Hitachi Says
New head-reading technology will quadruple capacity of standard hard drives.


Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:00 PM PDT

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years.
The new reading-head technology will allow the company to cram more data on hard drives. Desktop computers could attain a capacity of 4TB of storage while laptop storage could reach 1TB, according to Hitachi.