Hitachi Breaks Through Terabyte Barrier

October 18th, 2007

Corporations and consumers who crave more storage on their PCs can rest assured that hard drive makers are working to push well beyond the terabyte barrier. Hitachi claims it has developed the world’s smallest read-head technology, and expects its breakthrough to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes for desktop hard drives and one terabyte for notebook drives.A terabyte of storage space is equivalent to about one million books, 250,000 digital songs, or 250 hours of high-definition video.

“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,” Hiroaki Odawara, research director for Hitachi’s Storage Technology Research Center, said in a statement.

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