
The 8th annual Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference doesn't sound like the sexiest event in the world, but at this gathering of hard drive makers, Hitachi made a surprising announcement. Though the trends in hard drives seem to be moving towards flash or hybrid drives, Hitachi still believes there is great value in magnetic drives, and they've managed to shrink their recording heads down to 30-50 nanometers. What does this mean to us? Currently-sized laptop hard drives that can store one terabyte, and desktop drives at 4TB! Early versions of the drive should be ready to go by '09.
via slippery brick
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