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Hitachi Goes Perpendicular

Posted by Zonk on from the get-perpendicular dept.

Nimrangul writes "Hitachi has recently announced perpendicular recording with their harddrives, allowing for 10 times the data storage on a disk, meaning 20 G microdrives are on their way as soon as 2007. Hitachi is so pleased with this technological development that it has broken into song." This is, without a doubt, the most surreal thing I've seen today. Flash Required.

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  1. If you can get high before you watch this by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I strongly recommend it.

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    1. Re:If you can get high before you watch this by HDlife · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...The creators certainly did!

      mmmm, mmmm, Get perpendicular, mmmm, mmmm
      (I just can't stop)

  2. In the post-9/11 world, ... by chris_eineke · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the post-9/11 world, all hard-drives are terroristicular. ;)

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  3. In sovi.. by Tibe · · Score: 5, Funny

    In sovi.. Ah screw it, in Soviet Russia they don't make weird crap like that.

  4. Meow Mix the Sequel by robotsrule · · Score: 5, Funny

    This song will probaly stick in my head for weeks just like the "meow, meow, meow, meow" Meow Mix commercial jingle did. I am going to sacrifice a small hard drive as an act of contrition.

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  5. Patents by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if they can patent "a method of using disco music to make bits 'get perpendicular.'" Maybe if they crimp the disk, afterwards.

  6. Well I'll be! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck Strongbad. *This* is what Flash was made for.

  7. Re:School House Rock by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    All technical information should be conveyed this way! Seriously, can you imagine how well this would work to teach difficult concepts to people who are otherwise not entirely technical? Or, for that matter, for some of us industry insiders, too. No more thumbing through convoluted RFCs. Just load me up a flash animation with a funky beat!

    *snicker*

    I need my bits perpendicular so I can store more naked horizontals.

  8. Re:Interesting... by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, how much faster can they spin the drives now with this improvement?

    Slower, actually. If you spin too fast (or bump the drive), the bits will fall over. And not just a few bits. You've seen dominoes, right?

    (Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Knowing slashdot as I do, this has to be clarified).

  9. ObSimpsons by dangitman · · Score: 5, Funny
    bit: But why can't we just make a law against horizontal bits?

    Hitachi: Because that law would be against the laws of physics. But if we changed the laws of physics...

    bit: Then we could make all sorts of crazy hard-drives!

    Hitachi: Now you're catching on!

    bit: What if people say you're not good enough to be in the laws of physics?

    Hitachi: Then I'll crush all opposition to me, and I'll make Isaac Newton pay. If he fights back, I'll say that he's gay.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  10. Re:Jesus Christ by Actuator+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 54 minutes.