Fujitsu squeeze more into your laptop

The boffins over at Fujitsu Computer Products of America have managed to cram even more zeroes and ones on to a hard drive platter. Later this week Fujitsu will announce that

it has created ideally “ordered” alumina nanohole patterns for isolated bit-by-bit recording on a large disk area

according to ComputerWorld. What this all means is that hopefully around 2010 Fujitsu will be producing a dual platter 2.5 inch drive with a massive 1.2 TB of storage for your laptop.

How have they managed to squeeze all that data in you may ask, well you can check out the more technical stuff in the article itself if you are that way inclined - I tried and my eyes started to glaze over but then again I hadn’t had my first coffee of the day.

Aside from being able to cram more movies critical business data onto your laptop the drives will consume less power and require less cooling than larger drives which means Fujitsu get a gold green star for all their effort.

I also did a quick bit of math on these suckers and came up with a figure of 31.3 GB per square inch for the Fujitsu boys. This compares very favourably with the current consumer-available figure of 6.37 GB/sq in of the Western Digital 250GB Scorpio drive.

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