Get Perpendicular

Posts: 3258 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:15 am Post subject: Get Perpendicular

Hitachi announced yesterday the advent of a new era in hard drives: Perpendicular data storage. They claim this method of storing information will lead to 20gb microdrives and 1 terabit 3.5 inch drives by 2007. This could very well push Hitachi into the desktop hard drive market even further (and greatly expand the capacity of all hard drives). To promote the new Perpendicular technique, they have released a flash animation with a song, and a description of how it works. Not going to ruin it all for you, but it involves a school-house rock style, and a bit of disco. Awesome.

Posts: 2723 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject:

Sign me up for a 1TB drive please ^_^.

Posts: 1475 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject:

the flash animation was pretty awesome. also, ill take a 1TB drive as well Very Happy

Posts: 2723 · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

Any news about faster HDDs? Are the 10K RPM Sata drives going to get replaced any time soon, or come down in price?

EDIT: For the record, that flash "get perpendicular" is amazing.