Hitachi reckons it can quadruple hard drive capacity
Head shop gets into gear. Platters matter
Monday, 15 October 2007, 06:32
A BREAKTHROUGH in shrinking the heads on hard drives has led Hitachi to predict that not long from now we'll have one terabyte (TB) 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. µ
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I would like to thank "Sticy" Fingers for the correction...
I know, it's Monday.
"...not long from now we'll have one terabyte (TB) hard drives and 4TB desktop machines."

We already have 1TB hard drives and we already have 4TB desktop machines. So no need for this tech then?!?

Or it could be Hitachi meant 1TB notebook drives and 4TB hard drives. In that case Hitachi would make sense but this write-up still wouldn’t if it doesn’t get corrected.
methinks they were actually talking 'platters' ... less platters, less size/weight/heat/complexity...