DSI Planning 5mm 500GB hybrid HDD in November

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Pantelis Alexopoulos’s Push for Slimmer Disk Drives
DSI planning to unveil it in November. The 5mm hybrid drive, with an initial capacity of 500 gigabytes. Pantelis Alexopoulos understands he isn’t in the sexiest part of the tech business. The 64-year-old engineer from Greece has spent his career designing hard disk drives – storage devices that are crucial to computing, but don’t attract lines of sleep-deprived fans at five in the morning. "The world does not respect drives," says Alexopoulos, a Cornell University-trained veteran of IBM, HGST, and TDK Fujitsu who has been executive director of Singapore’s Data Storage Institute since 2010. "The customer doesn’t know it’s a marvel of engineering." A drive, he says, "is more sophisticated than a Boeing 747."