Terabyte HDDs being developed

[Paul Komski]

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/index.html

The animation is quite fun too.

[Mark Miller]

Very cool!!!
But I am having trouble filling a 100 gig drive.
But then again I'm not such a collector
Well maybe someday our photos of the grandkids will fill up a large drive.
Actually I think the best reason will be that on demand movies or things of that nature will fill drives of that size
How are ya Paul?
Mark

[PrntRhd]

Paul,
Is this the same as Pentachris' post in April?
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36671
:p

[i an not a nerd]

1 TB HDs would be nice, but i already have 2 TBs of space with 8 250 gb SATA HDs on my file server...

[Paul Komski]

RrntRhd The animation is the same as the direct link by Pentachris, which I must admit I had missed. My route to it was from a forensic forum and an interest in why smaller and smaller "magnets" had reached their limit because their polarities could flip and cause data destruction. There's also a BBC link to it at Hard drives for 'terabyte lives' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4080182.stm) with quite a good resume on "the state of play" and just why there is a continuing demand for very large drives; particularly very large capacity micro-drives.

[PrntRhd]

I wondered if you were coming at this from a different angle.
;)

[david eaton]

Hm...... Should be just about enough for Windoze 2010!

[kalim]

Great. Now I've got that song stuck in my head...

[penguin]

dont yall know that yall can already buy a tb of space or will these ones be a normal hardrive size?

[Paul Komski]

It wouldnt be surprising if 1TB drives had arrived though I havent seen any ATAs > 500GB.

The physical size of the Drive in its case is going to get smaller if anything and some of the references were for 1 to 5 TB microdrives. I'm sure that within a couple of years that 5, 10 and 20 TB will become "normal".

[Gutsman]

Makes my sad 74GB drive look like child's play.

The question is: Who's going to need a terabyte? Or two even? While it's nice to have it, I don't really see what the use is. But that's my view of things now. When software becomes more sophisticated, I'm sure this space will be put to good use.

[Paul Komski]

Makes my sad 74GB drive look like child's play.
You dont have to go very far back in time when anything measured in MBs was considered huge. 74 gig is not sad but as static memory gets cheaper and cheaper and huge data storage becomes practicable it will go on be gobbled-up by what is still an unsatiable demand. The convergence of all media from Music to TV to DVD to Movies to Video to etc to etc is just one reason that demand has yet to be saturated.

[Variable]

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft, 1981