High-capacity drives that use '3D pages' to store data could be on sale before the end of 2006.
Fujitsu announced on Wednesday in the US that it will ship its first hard drive to use perpendicular recording in October -- a 160GB, 2.5-inch drive for laptops.
Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.
Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first removable drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of 160mbps.
Seagate has announced its first 3.5-inch disk drives using perpendicular storage technology, which it hopes will break through the storage limitations that are beginning to impact hard-drive technology.
Spending time hanging out in Second Life has convinced me of one thing: very few real-world processes benefit from being replicated by a bunch of avatars -- and that goes doubly for storage.
Storage hardware can't keep indefinitely storing more bits in the same amount of space. When will we run out of disk space, and what will we do when it happens?
IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area.
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With all eyes on the Australian iPhone release, HTC has stolen some of the limelight with the release of the Touch Diamond. Coming in glossy black, with a large touch screen and an array of features, everything about this phone screams iPhone rival.
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Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.
3D storage for digital video steps into the future with the development of a holographic recorder that can hold 100GB of data - enough for 20 full-length movies.
To mark the start of a new year, here's a roundup of the likely trends in processors, graphics, peripherals and notebooks over the next 12 months.
Samsung's latest MP3 player can also double up as a removable storage device, FM radio, voice recorder and an MP3 encoder. Read our Australian review.
IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area.
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