Written by Marc Prieur
Published on July 4, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/04-07-2008/#9804

Last year, Hitachi already indicated that it planned on attaining 4 TB in 2011 on 3"1/2 drives with the help of its CPP-GMR (Current Perpendicular to the Plane Giant Magnetoresistance) technology which enables a strong increase in the surface density of drives.

Today the manufacturer now says that it has improved CPP-GMR technology so well that it will be possible to reach 1 TB per square inch in 2010 allowing 5 TB on a classic drive. The first models equipped with CPP-GMR should appear next year and will have 2.5 times the capacities of current drives, or in other words 2.5 TB. This is something that ought to allow Hitachi to catch up as it is the only one to still be limited to 200 GB platters while the competition uses 333 GB platters on certain models.