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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. Creators by kushboy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Anyone know who sings this?

  2. Interesting... by ErikZ · · Score: 4, Interesting


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

    The 15k drives use smaller platters so they can withstand the stress of the high RPMs.

    So what if you make them even smaller. The 36.6GB HD can potentially go up to 366GB now, but I think people would be very interested in a drive with smaller platters that goes 30,000rpm and is still 36.6GB.

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    1. Re:Interesting... by ErikZ · · Score: 1, Interesting


      You believe drive performance is dominated by seek time, or you know drive performance is dominated by seek time?

      Smaller disks=less area to cover to get to the data.

      Faster spin time=less waiting for the data to come back under the head.

      A drive that can only put out 60MB/s will put out 120MB/s if you can spin the platters twice as fast.

      Put out a drive with smaller platters that can go 30,000RPM, you will have the best performing mechanical drive on the market.

      So, is there a HD engineer in the house? 15,000RPM drives get pretty hot, are we able to go much faster? Or are we going to have to completely redesign them?

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      Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
  3. Re:For Your Referencing Pleasure by Seumas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd hardly say that's failing. That was really well done. I loaded it up, expecting it to be stupid and hating it. Not only did I learn something (recalling the huge uninformed slashdot debate earlier in the week when the story first broke), but it was very amusing. Just enough tongue-in-cheek not to be condescending, but silly enough to be followed by total gits.

    I'm not quite old enough for the Schoolhouse Rock stuff, but I've seen a few snips here and there (I'm not quite yet 30).

  4. Re:Oh God! by lintux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess you haven't heard the Free Software Song so far? :-)

  5. so where's the 7K500? by jab · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the Hitachi folks should stop singing and concentrate on shipping. On January 10 Hitachi announced the 500GB 7K500 drive would ship "first quarter 2005". It is now mid April, where is it?