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Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:53 pm**

A decade ago a 500 megabyte (MB) photo collection was something to boast about. Nowadays it is more likely be a collection measured in the gigabytes.

But as our appetite for storage continues to grow thankfully so does the capacity of our hard drives.

Hitachi has unveiled a drive which has reached the new heights of one terabyte (TB). Its drive looks like any other, but uses perpendicular magnetic recording to make space for all that data.

"The previous generation of recording technology was called longitudinal and it basically recorded the bits laying down, now we're recording the bits standing up," said Kelly O'Sullivan from Hitachi.

"So if you think of it that way, you're stacking a lot more data in a shorter area, therefore you get a terabyte."

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Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:55 pm**

Is it a hard disk? It is magnetic? No idea- lousy with computer hardware

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:06 pm**

Yep it's magnetic and stores its bits vertically instead of flat :alt:

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:21 pm**

and there was me considering buying a 500Gb one for my music collection, maybe i'll wait

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:23 pm**

perpendicular storage has been going for a 'while' now. most HD's over 500gb's are already using so no point in waiting.

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:27 pm**

I meant maybe i'll wait till i can get a 1Tb one for a good price

Posted: **Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:30 pm**

just get 2 500gb drives instead.

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Terabyte Hard Disk Anyone?

Terabyte Hard Disk Anyone?