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.

Comments

If you can get high before you watch this

[SweetAndSourJesus]

I strongly recommend it.

Re:If you can get high before you watch this

[HDlife]

...The creators certainly did!

mmmm, mmmm, Get perpendicular, mmmm, mmmm
(I just can't stop)

Re:If you can get high before you watch this

[taviso]

$ sudo emerge media-gfx/swftools
# non gentoo users: http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
$ wget http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/images/pr%2 0images/Get_Perpendicular.swf
$ swfextract --mp3 Get_Perpendicular.swf
$ xmms output.mp3

In the post-9/11 world, ...

[chris_eineke]

In the post-9/11 world, all hard-drives are terroristicular. ;)

In sovi..

[Tibe]

In sovi.. Ah screw it, in Soviet Russia they don't make weird crap like that.

School House Rock

[SumDog]

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!

Re:School House Rock

[Seumas]

All technical information should be conveyed this way! Seriously, can you imagine how well this would work to teach difficult concepts to people who are otherwise not entirely technical? Or, for that matter, for some of us industry insiders, too. No more thumbing through convoluted RFCs. Just load me up a flash animation with a funky beat!

*snicker*

I need my bits perpendicular so I can store more naked horizontals.

Meow Mix the Sequel

[robotsrule]

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.

Patents

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

I wonder if they can patent "a method of using disco music to make bits 'get perpendicular.'" Maybe if they crimp the disk, afterwards.

Re:Oh God!

[metlin]

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!

Well I'll be!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck Strongbad. *This* is what Flash was made for.

Re:For Your Referencing Pleasure

[Seumas]

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).

Re:Interesting...

[Seumas]

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

Slower, actually. If you spin too fast (or bump the drive), the bits will fall over. And not just a few bits. You've seen dominoes, right?

(Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Knowing slashdot as I do, this has to be clarified).

ObSimpsons

[dangitman]

bit: But why can't we just make a law against horizontal bits?

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.

Re:Jesus Christ

[Actuator Man]

About 54 minutes.