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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.
InfoWorld
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.
InfoWorld