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Hitachi Goes Perpendicular
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.
Yea they did. But I think they did it just lame enough to be funny as hell :)
Hitachi (ah, see, I remembered the brand) has succeeded in getting everyone to believe that they are on the cutting edge of hard drive technology. While that may or may not be true, the key point is that perception is being largely disseminated by a cartoon and not hard data or facts. Interesting.
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they want reliability
unless you are a fan of gambling with losing 200+gb of data that will die in 1-3yrs and with the price of a tape backup drive that can handle that amount of data being so high why even bother
digital data storage is so unreliable (cd rot, hard drives that die, flash memory has limited writes, any magnetic media) its not worth putting the effort into it, i dont want to keep writing my dvd's/cd's every 3 years cos the cd dye is unstable or my drive is going to die, thats bollocks
perhaps the message is , if you have anything worth doing, dont rely on using a computer to achieve it
Are you *kidding* me?
That was cool, catchy, geeky, original and quite imaginative, all at the same time.
I for one think it was really, really well done.
Get perpendicular...tra la la!
I'm dancing! I'm dancing!
This was insanely clever. Will be a cult video within days... You have to admit it does educate...
If the psychotic flash video is accurate, the bits are closer together. Wouldn't that mean the data could be read at a faster rate without increasing the rotational speed of the disk?
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The cartoon was cute and all, but what I'm wondering is if its really accurate or not. Are bits really these square pieces on a platter? I always had the impression that they were magnetic grooves in the platter (thus why you dont put a magnet near it). I don't see how you could make grooves perpendicular, so I guess I'm wrong. I did RTFA, but it would be great to see a better explanation of it!
the other major news sites online and offline will all be talking about Hitachi's great technology to store 30 000 mp3's on the next ipod mini. A few bucks of marketing VERY well spent.
/.'s, never mind the general public, wouldn't be able to understand from a generic press release.
Double points for doing this with something so technical that most
I don't think you can use a 32-bit Flash plugin in a Firefox compiled using 64-bit libraries...
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Hard drives aren't big enough for me. You ever tried working with more than an hour or so of uncompressed DV footage? Runs at nearly 1GB/minute, and if you have to edit it, you need yet another drive to dump the finished product on to if it's not going back to the camera. Modern drives are fast enough for what I want to do with them - roll on 1TB and above!
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They've 6 GB Microdrives today, and if Hitachi has 10x more space to get, why not 60GB in 2007 and not this paltry 20 GB? That's only 3x, not 10x. That's barely better than a Moore's Law type gain, and for disks, that's not that good at all.
yeah Linux is very easy to use and its desktop ready...
I just set my card to record the playback of my computer... and press record, duh! but that was too obvious I guess