The Future Is Coming: Hitachi 5TB 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

[dgridley]

Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read heads to achieve the aim. This, the firm claims, will allow its drives to store 1TB of data in every square inch of the recording surface.

Hitachi’s announcement is a step on from a claim it made back in October 2007 that 4TB of storage could become a reality by 2011.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/04/hitachi_5tb_hdd_2010/

Wonder what the price will be? (By 2010, we'll need a drive that size just to run Windows )

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[johname]

it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

It would take at least 3 drives for my brain lol

 

[mathiasc]

I think Hitachi's quality of hard drive isn't that good. I used to have 2 of their portable hard drives and they both died on me. I'm hoping they'll improve on their quality and not quantity.

 

[The Equivocate]

I recently bought a 750GB Western Digital external hd for $110 at Sams Club... best investment I ever made for my computer.

 

[dgridley]

That's a good buy.. I want to replace the 40gb internal that came with my comp with at least a 320 or higher.

I just bought a 320gb external for $79.

I recently bought a 750GB Western Digital external hd for $110 at Sams Club... best investment I ever made for my computer.

 

[weblord]

i think to deliver it to the Philippines will add to the price double than the price of the item itself.

 

[dgridley]

Could be.. I think these will initially be pretty expensive anyway. Like said elsewhere (on another forum), I'd rather see large scale solid state storage.

 

[holyroller]

I remember when I got a 1 gig drive for my computer, everyone thought it was funny and couldnt understand why I needed a hard drive that big :lol:

 

[dgridley]

I remember getting a 175MB HD (not GB.. MB!) and thinking no one could ever fill that up.. of course that's when Windows wasn't the bloated piece of cr@p it is today

I remember when I got a 1 gig drive for my computer, every thought it was funny and couldnt understand why I needed a hard drive that big :lol:

 

[weblord]

1gb = for all your software
1gb = for games
1gb = for videos
1gb = mp3
1gb = for the data

I remember when I got a 1 gig drive for my computer, everyone thought it was funny and couldnt understand why I needed a hard drive that big :lol:

 

[holyroller]

1gb = for all your software
1gb = for games
1gb = for videos
1gb = mp3
1gb = for the data

There wasn't MP3 or videos at the time and floppy discs were still common place. I remember installing Visual C++ it had something like 20+ floppy discs. I asked a computer shop a while back if they sold windows XP on floppy disc and he had to go and ask his boss because he wasn't sure :lol:

 

[weblord]

btw i still have floppy disks those 5.5
it's really floppy i used it as a fan
just add the 2g on the games.

There wasn't MP3 or videos at the time and floppy discs were still common place. I remember installing Visual C++ it had something like 20+ floppy discs. I asked a computer shop a while back if they sold windows XP on floppy disc and he had to go and ask his boss because he wasn't sure :lol:

 

[MJ]

Very nice.. should buy two though in case one fails you have a backup. Hard to backup 5 TB of data without another one :o

 

[dgridley]

Yeah, I can recall doing installs on floppy.. I had one program that required 10 3.5" floppies and I got to the 7th floppy and it was corrupted! UGH!

My current computer doesn't even have a floppy drive.

There wasn't MP3 or videos at the time and floppy discs were still common place. I remember installing Visual C++ it had something like 20+ floppy discs. I asked a computer shop a while back if they sold windows XP on floppy disc and he had to go and ask his boss because he wasn't sure :lol: