With platter density still the most troublesome issue of hard drive manufacturers today Fujitsu has announced that it has developed a way to cramp in even more bits and bytes on the small metal discs. According to Fujitsu, though newly-found alumina nanohole patterns, it was able to perform basic read/write capability of each individual nanohole of the patterned media using a typical flying head.

The technology is claimed to enable Fujitsu the possibility of releasing 2.5" drives of up to 1.2TB as soon as 2010. By using two 600GB platters, the planned 1.2TB PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) drive would be able to offer both silent and fast work in addition to low power consumption to a portable PC market that seems ever-increasing.

600GB on a single 2.5" platter. It will be interesting to see desktop drives that use Fujitsu's technology.