Hitachi hypes 'world's most capacious' laptop hard drive Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies group has rolled out what it claims is the world's most capacious laptop-friendly hard drive - a 500GB monster that notebook maker Asus has already said it will build into future machines. The 2.5in Travelstar 5K500 spins at 5400rpm and contains three disc platters and six read/write heads …
Of course it's a "massive" 40gb drive - just about everything in the universe is massive... the definition being: "has mass"
So... a "massive" hard drive just means it has a real hard drive, not one of those imaginary ones that the competitors sell!
A "huge 1gb of RAM" ... does that mean it uses desktop form-factor memory, rather than laptop? Hence the larger size??
HD manufacturers are unlikely to change their base 10 approach unless legally obliged - think about it, they'd all have to do it at the same time and even then it would look bad compared to "older" drives.
So this one's likely to be about 453Gb after formatting. The problem's just going to get worse as the numbers get bigger
Since they list 'Gigabytes' (GB), it is safe to assume it is base-10 Gigas.
'Gibibytes' (GiB) are the base-2 version, I recently learned.
Though as with clothes sizes, where getting one manufacturer to agree with another exactly how big a centimeter/inch is, reality might be more of a challenge!
All these HD will eventually obsolete replace with the nano technology chips hold terabytes as small as a stamp with only .05 mm thickness. I couldn't remember the company name mentioned in a technology business magazine with millionaires sportsmen and billionaires heavily invested into the new starter-up specialist company. Apple iPhone and IPod should be the company to deploy such technology if not mistaken.
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