Friday, July 4, 2008
Hitachi Plans for 5 Terabyte Hard Drive By 2010
Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 08:43 AM
"Hitachi expects to offer a hard disk with five terabytes of storage by 2010, the company tells Japan's Nikkei BP (registration required). While some recent developments are nearing one terabit per inch, Hitachi says its CPP-GMR (Current Perpendicular to the Plane Giant Magnetoresistance) technology has improved to where the company will push past 1TB per inch in two years and allow a 5TB, 3.5-inch desktop hard drive in two years."
Even as solid state drives (SSD) based on Flash memory continue to grow in capacity, and drop in price, good ol' magnetic metal continues to drive ahead with increased capacity. 5 TB by 2010 is somewhat mind-boggling. I don't even own a terabyte drive today - the biggest single hard drive I have is a 750 GB Maxtor external hard drive, and that's used solely for backup. What's appealing about bigger drives is the ability to have more storage in a small physical footprint - I have a bit over 3 TB of storage on my Windows Home Server, but that comes from three internal drives and four external drives. Being able to simplify that down into a couple of internal drives would be fantastic. Keep at it Hitachi!
Even as solid state drives (SSD) based on Flash memory continue to grow in capacity, and drop in price, good ol' magnetic metal continues to drive ahead with increased capacity. 5 TB by 2010 is somewhat mind-boggling. I don't even own a terabyte drive today - the biggest single hard drive I have is a 750 GB Maxtor external hard drive, and that's used solely for backup. What's appealing about bigger drives is the ability to have more storage in a small physical footprint - I have a bit over 3 TB of storage on my Windows Home Server, but that comes from three internal drives and four external drives. Being able to simplify that down into a couple of internal drives would be fantastic. Keep at it Hitachi!
