July 3, 2008

Hitachi Develops Capacity Increasing Technology For HDD July 3, 2008

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It may seem like a bit of a bit of a bum move but Hitachi is continuing to push the development of high-capacity hard drives and is currently working on a 5TB model set for release in 2010.

It seems clear that solid-state drives are the future of storage and their advantages are such than they'll inevitably end up replacing the old spinning disc altogether.

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The industry's in a bit of a rush to push out higher and higher capacities though, and with content such as high definition movie downloads eating up gigabytes of space at a time this does seem the most straightforward way to cope with demand.

It'll accomplish such goals using a technology called perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistance, which allows high quantities of data to be stored at above 1TB per square inch, so perfecting this approach could open the door to far higher capacities soon after.

Interestingly we're also edging towards the capacity of the human brain now; Hitachi's Yoshiro Shiroishi stated that "By 2010, just two disks will suffice to provide the same storage capacity as the human brain". - Paul Lester

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Comments

Does that means that we wont be able to remember what we have stored on the disks?

posted-by zea | July 3, 2008 2:42 PM

Umm.. excuse me...? What's the capacity of the human brain.. and how did anyone calculate it? What an ignorant comment by Shiroishi.

Lets hope Hitachi's hard drives don's share too many other features of the human brain, like forgetting and misremembering.

posted-by Anonymous | July 3, 2008 3:01 PM

Cue the user comment -
"Hard disks are now so big, what happens if this hard disk blows up? I'll lose everything"

posted-by badger badgerson | July 3, 2008 4:51 PM

Anonymous - excuse me, but the average human brain has more capacity than yours. A simple' search with your friend would point you towards the research of Robert Birge (Syracuse University).
Clearly, the brain works in a way that is a little different to your average hard drive and can't be directly compared, but you can come up with a figure for memory comparisons.
Maybe you've 'forgotten' or 'misremembered' how to search?

posted-by hmmmm | July 3, 2008 7:03 PM

i googled about and got this...

''robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in proteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was between one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3 terabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and assuming each neuron holds 1 bit.''

although between 1 and 10 tb is a pretty big margin lol

posted-by craig whitelaw | July 4, 2008 1:39 AM

>> although between 1 and 10 tb is a pretty big margin lol
.
And this is an argument for/against what?

posted-by bla | July 6, 2008 11:21 AM