Originally posted on October 15, 2007 @ 11:43 pm
I run a very small buy and sell business. I bring in a number of nifty gadgets from China and Hong Kong and sell them to people. It’s still too small an operation to really be called a self sustaining business but I’m happy with the way things are going. One of the items I usually buy are Hitachi hard drives. The brand is kind of hard to come by but the price of Hitachi HDs is very competitive especially for a businessman like myself. The build quality is also top notch. Being a satisfied Hitachi user and reseller I’ve always wondered why they do not have a bigger presence in the market.
Hitachi may not have a big presence right now but the company looks like it has what it takes to compete with the big boys in terms of product innovation. Recently, Hitachi through its subsidiary Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced that they have developed what is said to be the world’s smallest read/write head for hard drives.
The small size will allow for magnetic densities that are so fine that it will be possible to make 4 terabyte capacity hard drives and terabyte sized notebook drives by 2009. The new technology will supposedly mature by 2011.
This is good news for storage junkies like myself who are more confident in the capability of hard drives to store sensitive information rather than transferring it to DVD-Rs for storage. Hitachi seems to be on the right track with this new technology and I hope that this could lead to more presence from the company in the hard drive market.