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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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the strongest word is still the word "free"
For the clueless among us, it looks like they're trying (and sorta failing) to emulate Schoolhouse Rock.
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.
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
I wonder if they can patent "a method of using disco music to make bits 'get perpendicular.'" Maybe if they crimp the disk, afterwards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.