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Get Perpendicular!

Thursday 7 April 2005, 9:16 pm
Keywords: Humor

Hitachi achieves industry-leading areal densities via Perpendicular Recording. In March 2005, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies demonstrated an areal density of 230 gigabits per square inch on perpendicular recording technology, the highest areal density achieved to date based on vertical recording. This accomplishment represents a doubling of today’s highest data densities on longitudinal recording technology. At the current rate of growth, Hitachi expects to see products shipping at 230 Gb/in2 in 2007, translating into storage capacities of up to 20 gigabytes on Hitachi’s one-inch Microdrive and up to one terabyte on the Hitachi 3.5-inch Deskstar hard drive.

For a quick and entertaining look at the benefit that perpendicular recording delivers, view our animation "Get Perpendicular."

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.
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