By January 2010 we should be seeing 620GB 2.5-inch and 2.5TB 3.5-inch hard disk drives, according to head manufacturer TDK Corporation.
A presentation to financial analysts, including Stifel Nicolaus' Aaron Rakers, contained a roadmap for hard disk drive (HDD) read/write heads which TDK manufactures for some HDD suppliers. The …
TDK cassette's were fandabulous. I used to buy their SA90's by the truckload. I've still got them somewhere, but my tapedeck's not been unpacked since our last move 3 years ago! </nostalgia>
Anyone else have visions of a certain type of smoking supplies shop selling little circular maps of the local area? Oh, just me then? Er, okay, pass me my kaftan.
...how tight can they pack it before they hit the size floor when quantum and molecular physics make it tricky to shrink any further? Memory chips and CPUs are already getting close to that floor. Anyone know how close hard drives are to the floor?
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Head shop rolls out disk size roadmap
By January 2010 we should be seeing 620GB 2.5-inch and 2.5TB 3.5-inch hard disk drives, according to head manufacturer TDK Corporation. A presentation to financial analysts, including Stifel Nicolaus' Aaron Rakers, contained a roadmap for hard disk drive (HDD) read/write heads which TDK manufactures for some HDD suppliers. The …
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Posted Friday 7th August 2009 09:35 GMT
phoenix
Wow Thrilling #
I don't know about you but thats really thrilling!!!
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 09:51 GMT
exit...quit...bye...quitbye.ctrl-C..ctrlX.ctrl-alt-X...aarrrr*slam*
300GB. 15k. SAS DP. #
want. Now.
and I need several hundred.
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 09:58 GMT
The Vociferous Time Waster
Storage will never be sexy #
That is all.
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 10:03 GMT
Alfonso Vespucci
If only they'd put a bit more effort... #
...into storage media earlier
I might have been able to fit "The Lamb" on an SA90.
Damn your stretchy SA120s. Damn them all to Hell.
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 10:38 GMT
Chris 12
So that's what they're doing now... #
TDK cassette's were fandabulous. I used to buy their SA90's by the truckload. I've still got them somewhere, but my tapedeck's not been unpacked since our last move 3 years ago! </nostalgia>
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 11:25 GMT
Jerome 0
Head shop? #
Anyone else have visions of a certain type of smoking supplies shop selling little circular maps of the local area? Oh, just me then? Er, okay, pass me my kaftan.
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 11:25 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Phew! #
Was wondering how my storage setup was going to cope once 3D HD pron started!
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 11:57 GMT
OmniCitadel
... Head shop in the us #
Head Shops in the US are places you go to get pot smoking accessories and high end tobacco (not cigars, not cigarettes)
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 11:57 GMT
Charles 9
What I'm wondering is... #
...how tight can they pack it before they hit the size floor when quantum and molecular physics make it tricky to shrink any further? Memory chips and CPUs are already getting close to that floor. Anyone know how close hard drives are to the floor?
Posted Friday 7th August 2009 15:13 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@charles #
Depends if they are in a rack , on the dektop or grabbing dust off the floor.
Posted Monday 10th August 2009 08:25 GMT
Pete 8
That will please #
...the govt lepers who will need all that extra space for storing all our pr0n, phone calls, and twattery
Paris, because even though she is small form factor, she knows size is status.
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