Hitachi aims for 1TB desktop

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) plans to begin selling hard-disk drives based on a new recording method that could allow for 1TB desktop drives by 2007. That sound like plenty of space, but then I used to think a 40GB drive would always be plenty large enough for any personal computer.

But HGST has a new method to make the 1TB desktop a reality. That's right - 1TB. The new method uses a perpendicular recording method that arranges the north and south poles of the magnetic particles in a perpendicular fashion, unlike today's disks which use longitudinal recording. The perpendicular method crams more particles onto an area of the disk's surface, thus allowing for the greater recording capacity.


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