notoriousformula
01-06-2005, 10:25 AM
Hitachi, the world's No. 2 maker of hard drives, is looking to propel its 3.5-inch line of drives commonly used to store desktop computer files into new markets for storing massive quantities of data captured by personal video recorders.
But instead of the 40 hours of video, on average, that a standard 80-gigabyte hard-drive might store in a Tivo-type digital video recorder, the new drives can hold 200 hours -- half a terabyte, or more than 500 billion bits of data.
Link (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7239063)
But instead of the 40 hours of video, on average, that a standard 80-gigabyte hard-drive might store in a Tivo-type digital video recorder, the new drives can hold 200 hours -- half a terabyte, or more than 500 billion bits of data.
Link (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7239063)