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"As Hitachi GST embarks upon its latest educational campaign and debuts a new market vision which it encapsulates as “The Dawn of the Tera Era,” the company knew the time was once again right to produce a new video animation, given how successful these have always been in the past. This amazing collision of Capacity, Content and Culture has resulted in explosive growth of the amounts and types of information people are now storing. Megabytes are long forgotten. Today, gigabytes are being replaced by terabytes, hence the Tera Era. It’s happening now. This is the Tera Era."

Larry Swezey, Director of Consumer & Commercial HDD Strategy for Hitachi GST, details Hitachi's exciting and insightful new market vision and explains why we are at the "Dawn of the Tera Era." Swezey outlines Hitachi's view that with the intersection of three dynamic elements -- massive storage Capacity, unprecedented growth in digital data and rich media Content and a tech-savvy global Culture for whom life without computers and handhelds is now unthinkable -- it is time to say goodbye to the gigabyte and hello to the terabyte....hence, the Tera Era.  

Larry Swezey, Director of Consumer & Commercial HDD Strategy for Hitachi GST, details Hitachi's exciting and insightful new market vision and explains why we are at the "Dawn of the Tera Era." Swezey outlines Hitachi's view that with the intersection of three dynamic elements -- massive storage Capacity, unprecedented growth in digital data and rich media Content and a tech-savvy global Culture for whom life without computers and handhelds is now unthinkable -- it is time to say goodbye to the gigabyte and hello to the terabyte....hence, the Tera Era.  

In March 2005, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies demonstrated an areal density of 230 gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2) on perpendicular recording technology, the highest areal density achieved to date based on vertical recording. This accomplishment represents a doubling of today’s highest data densities on longitudinal recording technology. Hitachi presents its perpendicular storage strategy in the style of Schoolhouse Rock.