Sleek, capacious hard disks are making a new place for themselves in the home and on the road. We look at what's here and what's next.

It's a hard-drive industry mantra: Each succeeding generation must be faster and fit more data into less space. But while performance gains have been modest recently, areal density (gigabytes per square inch) continues to grow. The result: roomy desktop drives, tiny portable hard drives that hold truly useful amounts of data, and other new products such as easy-to-install network-attached drives for homes and small businesses.
And you can expect to see new functions and greater capacities in 2004

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