Fujitsu is expected to announce this week that the company has taken a step to produce 2.5-inch, 1.2TB hard drives
Manufacturers have been punching out larger capacity hard
drives like crazy over the past few years. It seems Fujitsu Computer
Products of America Inc. will take the cake on this one. According
to PC World, the company is expected to announce later this week that
it has developed a type of hard disk which uses alumina nanoholes for isolated
bit-by-bit recording on a large disk area.
Fujistu says is has performed the basic read/write capabilities of each
nanohole using a typical flying head on a rotating disk. This giant step
for Fujitsu can ultimately lead the manufacturer to produce 1.2TB on a
two-platter, 2.5-inch drive.
According to vice president of business development at Fujitsu Computer
Products of America, Joel Hagberg , the alumina nanohole media was created
using Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) processes. These processes use
nano-imprint lithography (enabling discrete distance from bit to bit or track
to track), anodic oxidation and cobalt electrodeposition at a density of
100-nanometer-pitch nanoholes.
While the ideal pattern technology will allow Fujitsu to produce a larger drive
with fewer challenges, the company still needs to examine the presence of
pattern thermal assist recording technology to warm the media before
writing. This also means determining power consumption and cooling
efforts. For businesses, finding minimized drives that reach high
capacity points is most ideal.
"[Fujitsu's achievement] allows especially the smaller form factors to
reach pretty high capacities. From a business-requirement standpoint, one
advantage that brings is the opportunity to use smaller drives for
applications, and smaller drives tend to use less power," remarked
International Data Corporation (IDC) analyst, John Rydning. "That kind of
technology is definitely what's needed to get [improved storage]
requirements."
If the drives are production ready, manufacturing and release is not expected
until 2010.
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