First 2.5-inch hard drive using perpendicular recording! 160G

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...

And still no closer to solid-state storage at large capacities and low prices... Sigh.

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

I used to program with nothing but 1's and 0's....

You had ones? All they gave us were zeros. And we were greatefull.

Matthew

Those zeros are so round, it's hard to push them uphill, which I had to do TO and FROM school, both ways!

--Nathan

But the 1's tended to get stuck in the snow more. Hard to drag those through the snow barefoot.