gorphon
July 29th, 2002, 11:13 PM
but its a 200 gig hard drive:
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Jun 25, 2002 – Continuing to lead the 7,200 RPM market with its WD Caviar® family, Western Digital Corp (NYSE: WDC) today introduced the industry’s largest capacity hard drive – its WD Caviar 200 GB 7,200 RPM product. This milestone marks the fourth consecutive first-to-market 7,200 RPM hard drive delivered by Western Digital – which was first to deliver 7,200 RPM hard drives in 80, 100 and 120 GB capacities.
WD Caviar 60 GB-per-platter 7,200 RPM hard drives will be offered in capacities ranging from 120 to 200 GB and will be available this July. To ensure quiet operation in noise-sensitive desktop/work station environments, Western Digital offers hard drives equipped with optional fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors.
wd press release (http://www.wdc.com/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=1404)
thats a lot of music right there....and I found this next link through arstechnica.com, these physicists have found a way to test the ultimate storage limit of silicon based medium by detecting the presence or absence of a single silicon atom. In testing a device built on this technology they found the maximum density to be 250tbits/sq. in...of course, itwont reach this limit for decades, but can you say what? That computes to something like a 3.5 disk that could likely store more information than currently exists in this world. but maybe I exagerate slightly, but not by much...
EETIMES (http://eetimes.com/at/news/OEG20020725S0006)
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Jun 25, 2002 – Continuing to lead the 7,200 RPM market with its WD Caviar® family, Western Digital Corp (NYSE: WDC) today introduced the industry’s largest capacity hard drive – its WD Caviar 200 GB 7,200 RPM product. This milestone marks the fourth consecutive first-to-market 7,200 RPM hard drive delivered by Western Digital – which was first to deliver 7,200 RPM hard drives in 80, 100 and 120 GB capacities.
WD Caviar 60 GB-per-platter 7,200 RPM hard drives will be offered in capacities ranging from 120 to 200 GB and will be available this July. To ensure quiet operation in noise-sensitive desktop/work station environments, Western Digital offers hard drives equipped with optional fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors.
wd press release (http://www.wdc.com/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=1404)
thats a lot of music right there....and I found this next link through arstechnica.com, these physicists have found a way to test the ultimate storage limit of silicon based medium by detecting the presence or absence of a single silicon atom. In testing a device built on this technology they found the maximum density to be 250tbits/sq. in...of course, itwont reach this limit for decades, but can you say what? That computes to something like a 3.5 disk that could likely store more information than currently exists in this world. but maybe I exagerate slightly, but not by much...
EETIMES (http://eetimes.com/at/news/OEG20020725S0006)