Head shop gets into gear. Platters matter.
A BREAKTHROUGH in shrinking the heads on hard drives has led Hitachi to predict that not long from now we'll have one terabyte (T
hard drives and 4TB desktop machines.
Boffins at the rotating platters firm claim they've perfected heads that are between 30 and 50 nanometres and drives using the tech will ship in 2009.
Hitachi has a long name for the tech which it dubs "current perpendicular to the plane giant magnetoresistive heads".
In essence, that long name masks tech which gives densities of 500 gigabits per square inch to one terabit per square inch.
What will you do with all this capacity? We can only shudder at what you'll do because our imagination precludes speculation on such matters.
The INQuirer