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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. OMFG by najay · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am speechless ....

  2. Amazing. by mr_pollock · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Simply amazing. What will they think of next?

  3. Fantastic! by JiffyJeff · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one, welcome our singing perpendicular magnetic disk overloards...

  4. Re:School House Rock by owlstead · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Before you skip over this as a dupe...

    Too late, I already skipped over it!

  5. Re:You got it buddy by Hast · · Score: 0, Redundant
    As I write this post, there are no other posts dealing with the technical details of this. There are no posts dealing with the implications of this development. Is this truly one of those "who cares" stories. 20GB. Nothing special.

    On the other hand, if the technology allows us to multiply the capacity of $200 drives tenfold, then I might care. The thought of a 2 TB drive for a couple of hundred bucks makes me salivate

    Sadly that wouldn't work as the bits stored on a 1.8" disk are a lot smaller than those stored on a normal disk. Because of this is is a lot easier to make them stand up on the disk without falling over. Also most larger desktop disks spin quite a lot faster (7200RPM or over) and if the bits are standing up they will fall down because of the centripetal fources.

    If you think this post sounds like BS you could just read the article with the technical details from last week and get the facts.