More data storage capacity, ever-smaller media. This is the eternal quest at Hitachi GST. And the good news is, we're making huge strides towards this end. We have already developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to 4TB on a desktop hard drive and 1TB on a notebook hard drive.

Our researchers have successfully reduced existing recording heads by more than a factor of two to achieve new heads in the 30-50 nanometer range – up to 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair. Called 'current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magneto-resistive' heads, Hitachi's new technology is expected to be inside its products by 2009 and reach its full potential by 2011.

We believe there is no other available technology capable of providing the hard drive's high-capacity, low-cost value for the foreseeable future, so we are driving the 'Terabyte Era' of storage, which we started, giving consumers virtually limitless ability for storing their digital content.

Hitachi GST: Driving the 'Terabyte Era' of storage