tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27527553.post-67972705904803130792007-10-16T03:09:00.000-07:002007-10-16T03:13:51.213-07:002007-10-16T03:13:51.213-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hard Disk Drive to get smaller in size, with bigger storage and cheaper?<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hitachi's new technology breakthrough unlocks the 1 tb limit...<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi.</b> </span><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">The smaller head can read greater densities of data stored on the disk. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">Hitachi said the advance would fuel the "terabyte era", with a 4TB drive able to hold more than a million songs. <!-- E SF --> </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">Hard drives store data by magnetising the surface of the disk in a pattern which represents the data in digital form. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The data is stored digitally as tiny magnetized regions, called bits, on the disk. A magnetic orientation in one direction on the disk could represent a "1", while an orientation in the opposite direction could represent a "0".</span> </span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Read all about it <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7044606.stm">here</a>, courtesy of news.bbc.co.uk<br /><br />Eric3DCOOL.COMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17101611697019644437noreply@blogger.com0