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Posted by kdawson on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:34AM from the behind-your-gmr-let-there-be-found-your-gmr dept.

zhang1983 writes "Hitachi says its researchers have successfully shrunken read heads in hard drives to the range of 30-50 nanometers. This will pave the way for quadrupling today's storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2011." Update: 10/15 10:39 GMT by KD : News.com has put up a writeup and a diagram of Hitachi's CPP-GMR head.

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Re:Waiting for... (Score:3, Funny)

by TheBOfN ( 1137629 ) writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:40AM (#20979417)

Don't forget the "finally something to hold all my pr0n" posts...

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Base 2 or Base 10? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:44AM (#20979445)

30-50 metric nanometers is not as small as 30-to-50 *2^-30* meters, so you purchase one of these drives and they rip you off with a head bigger than the size you expect.

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Yeah, okay. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:47AM (#20979465)

UT2004. ~8 GB, and that's with very few mods/etc. installed.

UT.

Two thousand and..

FOUR.

Notice, it's 2007 now, and shortly it's going to be 2008. Notice that video cards keep getting better and better, and are using larger and larger textures.

Hi, Bill Gates called, he wants his laughable predictions on "X ought to be enough for anybody!" back.

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Thats a lot of porn! (Score:5, Funny)

by Zantetsuken ( 935350 ) writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:54AM (#20979511) Homepage

I know most people think they don't need that much, but still, thats a helluva lot of porn!

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Re:4 Terabytes? (Score:2, Funny)

by cashman73 ( 855518 ) writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:54AM (#20979515) Journal

"4 terabytes ought to be enough for anybody,..."

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Re:Man (Score:5, Funny)

by ThirdPrize ( 938147 ) writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @03:37AM (#20979701) Homepage

What's in this folder of yours "Cowboy Kneel"? Hmmmm ...

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Re:I don't want more space... (Score:3, Funny)

by fractoid ( 1076465 ) writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @04:39AM (#20979949) Homepage

...as well as implementing a redundant RAID.
Is that like an ATM Machine? Or a PIN Number? ;)

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Re:Waiting for... (Score:3, Funny)

by ivoras ( 455934 ) writes: <ivoras AT fer DOT hr> on Monday October 15, 2007 @06:12AM (#20980293) Homepage

In other words: Where's my flying car?!

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Re:4 Terabytes? (Score:4, Funny)

by jollyreaper ( 513215 ) writes: on Monday October 15, 2007 @09:02AM (#20981115)

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i very rarely use the preview button; there's a good chance i know about my typos, don't bother pointing them out.
Hey, ee cummings, you forgot to capitalize your "i".

(I couldn't help it, the Devnul made me do it!)

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