Researches of Hitachi Ltd have created the world’s smallest disk drive heads which are 2000 times smaller than human hair
they minimized to ‘nano level’ a key component in hard drives achieve this miracle .this will enable them to make hard drives up to 4 terabytes for desktops computers and 1 terabyte for laptops in the next 4 years creating a revolution of sorts in computing
even a one terabyte hard disk can hold a mammoth amount of data, equivalent to the text contained in one million books
it is learn t that Hitachi will unveil its achievement at a conference in Tokyo this week. The technology used is similar to magneto-resistance that earned the physics Nobel for this year
