Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 372
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.
Re:So? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't want more space... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:So where is the speed? (Score:2, Informative)
Also, if Hitachi manages to get 4 TB onto a single or 2 platter arrangement, data density will be much higher now which should mean quite a bump in read/write speed (about 4 times, no?).
Re:So? (Score:2, Informative)
2007: $40000
2008: $12000
2009: $3600
2010: $1080
2011: $324
If this works out, 2011 might be about the time solid state disks overtake hard disks.
Re:So where is the speed? (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Waiting for... (Score:3, Informative)
It's not the size of your RAID mate, it's how you use it.
Re:So where is the speed? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Waiting for... (Score:3, Informative)
Next time do "# yum -y update && shutdown -r now" the && means that it will only run shutdown if yum reports successful completion, so if yum breaks you can see the errors.
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It may suck, but somebody's got benchmarks saying that it's faster...
Link [wustl.edu] from 2004, but still relevant, I'd think.
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