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1 Terabyte HD Due This Year, HD Turns 50

Posted By Brad On August 21, 2006 @ 12:45 am In BESComputers.net | No Comments

Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of storage will likely debut in 2006 according to Hitachi. Meanwhile, the HD will turn 50 on Sept. 13th. The first magnetic drive, the RAMAC created by IBM, weighed a ton and could hold 5MB of data on 50 24-inch circumference platters.

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[1] read more: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6105515.html
[2] digg story: http://digg.com/hardware/1_Terabyte_HD_Due_This_Year_HD_Turns_50

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