Hitachi Ltd. said on Tuesday it is seeking to push the limits of data storage with smaller stamp-sized disks for handheld gadgets and vastly higher-capacity drives that can store up to 100 films.
Hitachi, the world’s No. 2 maker of hard drives, is looking to propel its 3.5-inch line of drives commonly used to store desktop computer files into new markets for storing massive quantities of data captured by personal video recorders.
But instead of the 40 hours of video, on average, that a standard 80-gigabyte hard-drive might store in a Tivo-type digital video recorder, the new drives can hold 200 hours — half a terabyte, or more than 500 billion bits of data.
“This is actually quite an exciting time,” Bill Healy, Hitachi’s head of storage products marketing, said in an interview detailing the company’s storage technology plans.
The new drive will be available to electronics manufacturers in the first quarter. Hitachi was previously the first to deliver a 400-gigabyte, or billion byte, disk drive.
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