Date: 21/01/2007

Fujitsu continues to drive disk drive density to new levels with it's latest technology break through

Fujitsu has announced, it has achieved a memory density of one Tera bit per square Inch on magnetic disk drives. This was possible by using patterned media technology, a one- dimensional array nanohole pattern with unprecedented 25nanometer pitch. This process enables storing of Terabits of data even in low form factor disk drives, which are getting popular in mobile phones and handheld media players. The companies involved in this development are, Yamagata Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited and Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST).
Laptops can get thinner and sleeker with low form factor and high capacity disk drives based on this technology.
If the problems like power consumption, noise, speed are addressed faster by disk drive manufacturers, the chances of flash and other solid state memories becoming mainstream will be prolonged. There are high chances of magnetic disk drives and solid state memory based disks/modules coexist for sometimes before we say goodbye to magnetic disk drives.