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Seagate Pushes Hard Drive Platters to 160GB
TheRainDog writes "Although perpendicular recording has yet to make its way into desktop hard drives, Seagate continues to push platter densities the old fashioned way. The company's 160GB platters have the highest areal density in the industry by over 25%, allowing Seagate to create a 160GB Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive that uses a single platter and costs under $90. The single-platter design has lower noise levels and power consumption than multi-platter designs, and a lower probability of a catastrophic head crash. Higher areal densities also allow the drive head access the same amount of data over shorter physical distances, improving performance dramatically in some instances. The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the 160GB Barracuda 7200.9's performance against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital."
Actually the probability is higher with the newer drives since the air gap between the head and the disc surface is an order of magnitude smaller, in addition to the fact that the drives are spinning faster.
females (yes, I didn't capatalize the word for a reason) only have one head, and it doesn't contain much of a brain. Two heads are better then one. One for raping your wives and the other for developing enjoyable opensource 2D RPGs.
Moderators today sure are firing away.
Geez...
No need to punish me, plz plz?
I promise to behave from now on.
And... I already got my today's -1 Flamebait. Oh...
If I clone myself, can I call it a thread?
If a girl winks to us, can I call it a race condition?
Death To women's Rights.
Repeal the 19th ammendment.
Rape your wives.
Marry girls off at menarche.