Laser Heating Technique To Increase Drive Storage

... as they should, of course. Who can settle with mere gigabytes?

At 6.25terabytes per square inch we should be able to see terabyte microdrives someday in the not too distance future. And to think we only recently got passed the 1GB mark to 4GB and higher.

I'd predict we'll have them in about 10 years. Whether or not the microdrive format itself is still around will be a different question. Given how long standard hard drive formats stick around, I think it just might be. After all, there haven't been that many in recent history -- and most of these are still around: 5.25", 3.5", 2.5", 1", and most recently 0.85" hard drive mount sizes. I still remember the super thin drive I had once in a 5.25" format. I think it was a Quantum Bigfoot. Such a change...

Posted by Shane on March 24, 2004 7:16 AM | Permalink