New Technology Boosts Hard Drive Capacity

[Slider19]

What's this all about?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060116/ap_on_hi_te/seagate_drives;_ylt=AheRYo3U2n7GqUHvm6RHwkys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMT A3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Seagate Technology LLC has started shipping a notebook PC hard drive that overcomes an obstacle many feared would be a major roadblock to the further expansion of disk capacity — and the overall growth of the storage industry.

The new approach that aligns bits of data vertically rather than horizontally enables Seagate — and other drive vendors — to further boost the density of drives without increasing the risk of scrambling data

[BillLeeLee]

Perpendicular storage. I know Hitachi was big into perpendicular storage research.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/index.html

Didn't know the drives were all ready to go though.

[1c3d0g]

Yawn. :o Welcome to last year (the actual prototype, the idea itself is older than most of you). :)

[Neurofreeze]

There's a post on the frontpage about it. Supposedly about this time next year, all major manufacturers will be producing perpendicular storage drives instead of their current ones.