Hitachi to offer 4TB desktop drives, 1TB laptop drives
Hitachi unveiled a new reading-head technology for hard disk drives, which would dramatically boost storage capacity up to 4 Terabytes (TB).
The new reading-head technology called current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive (CPP-GMR) heads, is a reduced version of the existing recording heads in the 30nm -50 nm range.
The company claimed that CPP-GMR will pave the way for the availability of 4 TB hard drive for desktop and 1 TB hard drive for laptop.
Hitachi will present these achievements at the 8th Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference (PMRC 2007) to be held October 15-17, 2007 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan.
Hiroaki Odawara, Hitachi’s research director for storage technology research, said “Hitachi continues to invest in deep research for the advancement of hard disk drives as we believe there is no other technology capable of providing the hard drive’s high-capacity, low-cost value for the foreseeable future.”
“This is an achievement for consumers as much as it is for Hitachi. It allows Hitachi to fuel the growth of the ‘Terabyte Era’ of storage, which we started, and gives consumers virtually limitless ability for storing their digital content,” Odawara added.
This new development seems to help meet the future storage requirement of multimedia stockpilers. In addition, it will help boost the growth of Web 2.0 applications, which are entirely video based.
The first commercial drives with CPP-GMR head is expected to reach the market in 2009, the company said.
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