Thursday, July 28, 2005

Lets get perpendicular


Seagate have announced that nearly all of the hard disk drives made by Seagate will feature perpendicular recording technology by the end of 2006.

Perpendicular recording works by standing the magnetic fields that represent data bits upright instead of being flat, resulting in a much more compact data that promises to boost the capacity of drives.
Seagate will focus first on its 2.5' and 1" drives and then on the 3.5"
desktop drives.

Toshiba, Hitachi and Fujitsu have all stated that they will also be moving towards the technolgy, but Seagate appears to be determined to be the first to market with the mass consumer drives. A 160GB 2.5" drive will be the first offering by Seagate next year while Fujitsu having already stated that a 200GB 2.5" drive will be available in 2007.

Read The Register's article.


Posted by: Jethro | 10:00 AM |