Fujitsu Could Produce 1.2TB Laptop Hard Drives

Fujitsu is expected to announce a hard drive technology breakthrough this week that could lead the company to produce a two-platter 2.5-inch HDDs with storage capacities of up to 1.2 terabyte (TB) as soon as 2010, Computer World reports.

Fujitsu says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to perform basic read/write capability of each individual nanohole of the new patterned media using a typical flying head on a rotating disk.

“The patterned alumina nanohole media was created via a Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) processes using nano-imprint lithography (enabling discrete distance from bit to bit or track to track), anodic oxidation and cobalt electrodeposition at a density of 100-nanometer-pitch nanoholes suitable to existing head technology,” according to report.

Currently, the 2.5-inch hard drive with the largest capacity in the market is a 300GB Fujitsu MHX2300BT, while the 2.5″ solid state drives have reached 256GB.

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[...] The 1,46TB and 1.2TB HDD capacities packed into laptop-use 2.5-inch form factor have been announced earlier by Seagate and Fujitsu. [...]