1 Terabyte Notebook HD: Coming Soon to your Laptop

Current hard drive storage for notebooks and desktops top out at about 200 GB and 500 GB respectively. Those figures will change in a few short years. That’s because Hitachi Global Storage Technologies just announced that they have developed a new read-head technology for hard disk drives, which would enable the production of 1terabyte disk drives for a laptop, and 4 terabytes for a desktop hard drive.

Unless you have a massive collection of audio and video files, this new technology will not change your computing experience. Even for those who do, the terabyte-sized disk drives enabled by this technology will not be in shipping products until 2009, and according to Hitachi, the full potential will not be realized until 2011.

Hitachi is expected to showcase this new technology at the 8th Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference (PMRC 2007), which will be held at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan from October 15-17, 2007. Details of this news release is available
here.