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   #13. Posted at 04:45 PM on Jan 16th 2006, Edited at 04:46 PM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
IntelMole
/me waits for someone to bring up the other perp thread discussion, about collusion and lack of competition in a market, so i can argue that this isn't all that strange that someone brings out their response to the tech within a while :-P,
-Mole
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#13, Hehe, alrighty: http://techreport.com/ja.zz?comments=9276 (r...  :  muyuubyou  (#22)  «
#22, heh, i guess i wasn't aware how many times companies post...  :  IntelMole  (#23)  «
#13, I've re-read your post several times and I still don't under...  :  UberGerbil  (#25)  «

   #24. Posted at 09:55 AM on Jan 17th 2006 Edit   Reply
nonegatives
People keep wondering why we don't see larger (physical) drive with this technology. Besides the obvious newness of the coating process, the read-write heads probably also need to be improved. I remember when drives seemed 'stuck' at 6-8 Gig until GMR heads became standard.
Look at the current 15K RPM drives, they are still using lower density platters. Moving the same-sized bits faster is not the same as putting more bits into a smaller area, but the end result is the same.
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   #2. Posted at 08:29 AM on Jan 16th 2006, Edited at 08:30 AM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
Aphasia
Well, one way to raise transfer rate is to get higher densities, which perpendicular helps, but id rather prefer to have 7200rpm and higher densitet. Tiny bit of problem with laptops with heat and power though.

Still nice. Perhaps i'll get a decent HD when i finally upgrade to a decent laptop.
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#2, We'll see higher densities and 7200rpm combined eventually, ...  :  UberGerbil  (#9)  «
#9, I installed the Hitachi 7200 RPM 60GB drive in my old 867...  :  blase  (#15)  «
#15, Yeah, dropping in a 7K makes a significant difference ...  :  UberGerbil  (#20)  «

   #14. Posted at 05:44 PM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
Bensam123
Why wouldn't you want to 'get perpendicular'?

Wonder when they'll start stacking bits and using hardware level compression, is that even possible?

So many ways to change something that hasn't changed in so long...
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#14, They kind of already stack bits, using multiple platters. I'...  :  IntelMole  (#19)  «

   #17. Posted at 11:08 PM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
floodo1
umm early adopters could be all the people with small stock ide drives on lower end laptops.

not all that many people have sata laptops, and they prolly arent in need of a new HD if they do.

maybe im wrong but it seems that way to me :-|
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#17, The laptop market is primarily OEM. Most people who want a l...  :  TO11MTM  (#18)  «

   #16. Posted at 08:58 PM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
quarantined
Argh, me want solid state! Me want solid state!
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   #10. Posted at 02:17 PM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
arb_npx
ALL of its hard drive products? Including the 3.5" Cheetah 10K RPM and 15K RPM SCSI/FC lines, and the Savvio 2.5" SAS lines?

How reliable is perpendicular recording tech right now? More importantly, how bad is a bad sector in perpendicular recording?
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#10, All *new* hard drive products ;)  :  Dissonance  (#11)  «
#10, "How reliable is perpendicular recording tech right now? Mor...  :  indeego  (#12)  «

   #8. Posted at 11:45 AM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
spiritwalker2222
It'd be nice to see how it performs against similar laptop hard drives. Just to give us an idication of how it might perform in a desktop once they start making 3.5" drives.
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   #7. Posted at 11:25 AM on Jan 16th 2006, Edited at 11:26 AM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
Samlind
I'm surprised Seagate was so far ahead of Hitachi getting the product out the door. The technology was invented by a prof at the Tohoku Institute of Technology, and I'd expect the Japanese companies to get the tech out way ahead of the US based companies.

Toshiba had a iPod sized drive out last year, and still are pushing .85 inch and 1.8 inch drives using it. But I haven't heard of any proposed laptop HD's, despite being a huge laptop HD supplier.
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   #4. Posted at 08:59 AM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
Krogoth
Shameless link

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/Perpendicu...
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#4, Finally someone posted it. It was so long since last time I s...  :  Klopsik206  (#5)  «
#5, I think thats one of the best tech animations i have seen...  :  shank15217  (#6)  «

   #3. Posted at 08:40 AM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
crabjokeman
Now if only the Momentus was as quiet as WD's Scorpio...
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   #1. Posted at 08:29 AM on Jan 16th 2006, Edited at 08:29 AM on Jan 16th 2006 Edit   Reply
Anomymous Gerbil
And soon, 200GB from Fujitsu: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/13/fujitsu_expands_harddrive_business/
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