Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution
Posted by Hurmoth on 04 April 2005 - 19:28 · 23 comments & 2069 views
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#1 Posted by VB Guy on 04 Apr 2005 - 19:46
- This technology sounds promising. From what I've heard this is the stuff that will break the terabyte mark for standard consumer size hard-drives.
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#2 Posted by krono6 on 04 Apr 2005 - 19:50
- Thats Tiny...I can use it for my Anime!
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#3 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 04 Apr 2005 - 20:07
- whats "perpendicular" about it?
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#3.1 Posted by PCyr on 04 Apr 2005 - 20:42
- The magnetic fields are stored vertically, which reduces the amount of surface area needed on a disk.
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#3.2 Posted by zailex on 04 Apr 2005 - 20:45
- It means that the magnetic fields are stored like this: ||||||||, but not like this: ---------- anymore
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#3.3 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 04 Apr 2005 - 21:02
- whats the advantage?
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#3.4 Posted by CiQuat on 04 Apr 2005 - 21:27
- Just as they said above you, it reduces the amount of surface area 1 bit takes. That means they can pack more bits in the same horizontal area than before - which means they can fit more data in there without having to increase the number or size of platters in a drive.
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#4 Posted by beardly on 04 Apr 2005 - 20:22
- 20GB and Mini in the same sentance just doesn't sound right, but I want it.
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#5 Posted by redmosquito on 04 Apr 2005 - 20:31
- that sounds very good.
as #4 said... ipod and 20gig doesnt sound right, but its cool. maybe its not ipod mini anymore, its just ipod. i think a gen 4 ipod would look amazing with ipod mini proportions.
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#5.1 Posted by BTallack on 04 Apr 2005 - 21:50
- Just remember that the first gen iPod was 5gigs (smaller than the new iPod mini's) and physically larger than the 4g iPods.
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#5.2 Posted by kitchenutensils on 06 Apr 2005 - 11:53
- if they use this new density with standard iPod proportions - then any battery queries would be right out of the window!
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#6 Posted by nvizible on 04 Apr 2005 - 20:49
- more storage is good news as always!
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#7 Posted by welshkid on 04 Apr 2005 - 21:24
- cool
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#8 Posted by bucko on 04 Apr 2005 - 22:15
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#9 Posted by kaffra on 05 Apr 2005 - 00:58
- cool, only 2.5cm? cant wait for the bigger 8.9ones and its storage
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#10 Posted by xMorpheousx416 on 05 Apr 2005 - 04:17
- and to think....it took my XP box almost 40 mins to fully format a 120G drive......
I could go on vacation waiting to format a 1T
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#11 Posted by geektragedy on 05 Apr 2005 - 05:38
- excellent breakthrough. bring it on...
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#12 Posted by TwoTailedFox on 05 Apr 2005 - 13:14
- Although this won't be ready until 2007, I guess Bill was right; By Longhorn, Terabyte Storage Devices will be pretty much a reality.
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#13 Posted by xMorpheousx416 on 05 Apr 2005 - 17:13
QUOTE I guess Bill was right; By Longhorn, Terabyte Storage Devices will be pretty much a reality.
By the time we see LH, 1T drives will be dinosaurs.
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