HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) announced yesterday that they have managed to further miniaturise the drive heads they use in the hard disk drives. I hadn't realised exactly how small these recording heads were; apparently 2000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Called "current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive1 (CPP-GMR) heads" (I copied that from the press release to save me getting it wrong) which is a snappy title for any technology, these new heads will apparently move us closer to 4TB drives.
As I previously posted, hard drive technology these days is just amazing. All I can say, is keep it up guys!
Monday 15 October 2007
Disk Sizes Continue to Dazzle
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