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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.
I strongly recommend it.
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For the clueless among us, it looks like they're trying (and sorta failing) to emulate Schoolhouse Rock.
You obviously don't check Newgrounds often. :)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Yeah, that was pretty surreal, not Mini-Me-being-spanked-by-a-6-foot-tall-woman-on-VH 1 surreal, but more than enough for a drunken Friday night.
No, but I used to work for Microsoft.
In the post-9/11 world, all hard-drives are terroristicular. ;)
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
No.
it lacked the fucking song and dance number.
HOLY FUCK WAS THAT CATCHY.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
In sovi.. Ah screw it, in Soviet Russia they don't make weird crap like that.
Before you skip over this as a dupe, you need to check out the flash animation.
Damn this thing screams a nerd verion of school house rock!
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.
Robert Oschler - RobotsRule.com
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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All the song and dance for that?
Nothing to see here
I wonder if they can patent "a method of using disco music to make bits 'get perpendicular.'" Maybe if they crimp the disk, afterwards.
HOLY FUCK WAS THAT CATCHY.
Get perpendiculaaaar!
NO! It won't go away!
All comments are properties and trademarks of the voices in my head. Not like I'm gonna claim them.
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!
That's my new sig.
I'm dancing! I'm dancing!
This was insanely clever. Will be a cult video within days... You have to admit it does educate...
a working link: http://www.archive.org/download/dontcopythatfloppy /dontcopythatfloppy.wmv
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.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
Am I glad IBM sold their "moribund" HD biz to Hitachi. Even when funk and disco were king & queen of the dancefloor, IBM never had the balls to rip off "I'm Just a Bill" to enlighten us on superparamagnetism.
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Try this, then.
Fuck Strongbad. *This* is what Flash was made for.
How much do you want to bet the price of these drives will get perpendicular too?
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
In Post 9/11 America, the bits have to stand up straight or terror will win.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
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
No, no, THIS is Goatse for the ears :)
...yeah - "Oh My God! You Killed Kenny" becomes "Oh My God! You Killed Another Feature!"
Just my anecdotal experience is that hard drives are bigger and more reliable these days than they were back in the days of those old clunkers. Especially when you take into consider the higher demands we're placing on them.
I love that fat guy, he rocks :)
In a horrible, car-wreck-eqsque "glad it's not me" kinda way... Like the starwars kid.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
My boss has been calling me and demanding I get Perpendicular for years....and my memory hasn't improved one bit.
Never play chicken with a passive aggressive.
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.
... and then they built the supercollider.
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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I guess you haven't heard the Free Software Song so far? :-)
It's already the rage with the young kids. My 17 months son watched the whole thing through, and clapped along with the applause at the end (so cute! He's going to be geek, just like daddy!). If that's not proof positive that Hitachi is on to something, I don't know what is.
There ain't no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something.
I will be selling all of my shares at once! There is no place for humanity in a *serious* corporation!
Power to the Peaceful
People have been talking about perpendicular recording for 20 years, and if I recall correctly the big problem with all previous attempts was ensuring alignment between the heads. Previous attempts used a head on either side of the medium, and keeping those within micron tolerances would be well-nigh impossible.
Hitachi has a very small head writing the data, then the magnetic field lines diffuse through the medium, coming back out the same side in a much larger area that won't flip the bits at that point. Clever.
Thad Beier
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My name is Troy McClure. You know me from movies such as "Blue Rays do it in High Density" or "When Magnetism Becomes Gigantic".
Fight hunger. Filet a politician and send him to a 3rd world country of your choice.
In Japan, a lot of product manuals, corporate PR documents, and government documents are published in manga form. Morita Akio, co-founder of Sony onced asked his young female skiing instructor if she had read his autobiography Made in Japan. She told him "no, but I would have read it if it was a manga." So he had an artist adapt his book into manga form, naturally.
The informational manga genre was mostly spurred by the publication of A Manga Introduction to the Japanese Economy and A Manga History of Japan (Manga Nihon-no-Rekishi in the 1980s.
Here's a direct link to the SWF for archival purposes.
Thank goodness they've come up with a way to make HDs store more data!
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?