Hard Drive Reaches 500 GB

[Kakashi]

Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In terms of how it stores data, though, the Deskstar may be among the last of its kind, as drive manufacturers begin to approach the limits of how densely they can pack data using today's standard recording technology.

Demand for greater capacity continues to rise due in large part to a growing need for music and video storage on PCs and consumer electronics devices. To meet that need, storage vendors are turning to new recording technologies. The first of these, perpendicular recording will debut from Toshiba this year.


http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120102,00.asp

[gameking]

soon there will be one terabytes of harddrive man i still remember when i bought my first pc with 2gb hard disk and ppl used to envy me for that lol!

[digital_brain]

soon there will be one terabytes of harddrive man i still remember when i bought my first pc with 2gb hard disk and ppl used to envy me for that lol!
well...my first pc was better than u.. :D :D it was a FOUR GB hard disk :D :D .that was probably the bigest that time.

[suneetsmausil]

research new stporage technologies. whjat we use today wont be used after few months. so the technology industry is always going to be active. Indian whizs should bank on it.
One great patent can change life of many.

[raj]

err... 1.5TB Externam Hard Drives are availble. so you mightw anna cut "soon" word:D

[egghead]

where do you have a link?

[raj]

Dude where were you? the Info is quite old, any ways, the Drive was launched by LaCie, it supports USB 2.0, IEEE 1394b (FireWire 400/800) see all the details at:
http://www.lacie.com/company/news/news.htm?id=10099