Hard drives will be 2.5 TB size by this fall
Manufacturers of hard drives are able to gradually increase the volume of produced models, a move to platters with higher density recording. In hard disks size 3.5 “is used platters volume of 500 GB that allows you to create storage capacity of 2 TB on the basis of four of these plates. History knows examples of hard disk drives with five platters, so the amount in two terabytes – not the limit for today’s hard drives.
As stated in the updated roadmap of the company TDK, platters volume of 640 GB will appear in the “desktop” segment is literally in the next month, and by November they will get serial hard drives in a standard size 3.5 “. This will allow manufacturers to create models of a 2.5 TB hard drives based on four platters, or infringe upon the conquest of foreign countries 3 TB when using five platters.
Hard drive size 2.5″ will go to use the platter capacity of 375 GB by October this year. During this period the market may appear hard disks size 2.5″ 750 GB, suitable for use in laptops. Admittedly, TDK had to revise its forecasts for the rate of increase in areal density on platters – even six months ago, the company promised that discussed above areal density will be achieved by May 2010.
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