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#257952 - 10/06/2005 06:47 First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G
Cas_O
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Registered: 17/05/2000
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Looks like there will be a flurry of true high capacity drives soon!

http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,2730,00.html

fixed link -wfaulk


Edited by wfaulk (10/06/2005 15:43)

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#257953 - 10/06/2005 13:23 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: Cas_O]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Anyone got the scoop on exactly what "Perpendicular recording" is?
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#257954 - 10/06/2005 13:40 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: tfabris]
BartDG
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Registered: 20/05/2001
Posts: 2616
Loc: Bruges, Belgium
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Anyone got the scoop on exactly what "Perpendicular recording" is?


Have a look here!
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#257955 - 10/06/2005 14:44 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: BartDG]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
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Have a look here!

I wonder what Hitachi engineers have been smoking...

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#257956 - 10/06/2005 15:07 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: tman]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Probably the same thing the folks that wrote the "Schoolhouse Rock" bits were...

I think I will let the drive makers leapfrog capacity for a while before my next full upgrade of all players...
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#257957 - 10/06/2005 15:11 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: pgrzelak]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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I think I will let the drive makers leapfrog capacity for a while before my next full upgrade of all players...

Oh no! Say it's not true!

At the current rate we'll get > 1TB desktop drives soon which will be nice

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#257958 - 10/06/2005 16:09 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: tman]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
And still no closer to solid-state storage at large capacities and low prices... Sigh.
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#257959 - 11/06/2005 01:29 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: tfabris]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
Just wait until they enable the inter-compressioon on these new drives. It works like this... See, all that's recorded are 1's and 0's. Well as you can see, the 0's are right fat little bastards. So some sneaky scientist type has figured out how to stick the ones right through the middle of the zeros. This ends up taking less space. In fact they're already working out how to double-stuff those 0's - soon we may see two or three ones in each.

And before you get all up in my face saying this is old news, you were probably thinking of the older technology that didn't pan out which was to put the zero above the one to look like those cute "i's" that some girls write. At today's high platter rotation speeds however, they found that some of the 0's would fly loose and gum up the spindle motors.

Bruno
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#257960 - 11/06/2005 04:11 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: hybrid8]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
I used to program with nothing but 1's and 0's....
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#257961 - 11/06/2005 05:09 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: tfabris]
matthew_k
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Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
You had ones? All they gave us were zeros. And we were greatefull.

Matthew

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#257962 - 12/06/2005 02:52 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: matthew_k]
Mataglap
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Registered: 11/06/2003
Posts: 384
Those zeros are so round, it's hard to push them uphill, which I had to do TO and FROM school, both ways!

--Nathan

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#257963 - 12/06/2005 05:36 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: Mataglap]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
But the 1's tended to get stuck in the snow more. Hard to drag those through the snow barefoot.
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#257964 - 12/06/2005 15:14 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: tfabris]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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I used to program with nothing but 1's and 0's....

In Mother Russia, the ZEROS program YOU!


Bruno, that was hysterical. But I have to wonder, if a 1 and 0 (or more) occupy the same space, how do they know which comes first? Unless the one-inside-the-zero only represents 01 while cute girly i's only represent 10.

It's good to see this stuff coming down the pipe, just when I thought the hard drive industry was stagnating in linear growth.
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#257965 - 12/06/2005 23:08 Re: First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G [Re: FireFox31]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
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In Mother Russia, the ZEROS program YOU!

Best. Response. Evar.
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