Friday, August 10, 2007

1.2TB laptop hard drives

As hard drive manufacturers relentlessly pursue packing greater aerial density on smaller devices, Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. may have an ace in the hole. The company is announcing that it has created ideally "ordered" alumina nanohole patterns for isolated bit-by-bit recording on a large disk area.

With that feat, Fujitsu says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to perform basic read/write capability of each individual nanohole of the patterned media using a typical flying head on a rotating disk. That breakthrough could lead the company to produce hard drives with <A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135683-pg,1/article.html">storage capacities of up to 1.2TB</A> on a two-platter, 2.5-in. drive as soon as 2010.

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