Hitatchi must be really excited about their new hard drives ... Articles / Geek Links Posted by Exodus on Apr 08, 2005 - 06:03 PM Well, we have bigger drives on the way. Looks like by the end of the year we might have standard hard drives up to 1TB. That's Terabyte. As in 1000 Gigabytes. Currently, the highest IDE drive is 400GB. Hitachi Engineers New Hard Drive Storage Method [1] I admit, I'm thrilled about larger storage mediums, but I think they've gotten a little *too* excited about their idea. Tell you what, watch this little flash animation [2] on their site which explains the new technology, and then you tell me. This article is from Random Drivel   http://www.randomdrivel.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.randomdrivel.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4388 Links in this article   [1] http://www.toptechnews.com/ttn-hrdwr/story.xhtml?story_title=Hitachi-Engineers-New-Hard-Drive-Storage-Method&story_id=32280&category=ttn-hrdwr   [2] http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html