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Perpendicular recording promises roomier iPods

...platter 40GB drive called the MK4007GAL. Both use a storage technique called perpendicular recording, first proposed nearly 30 years ago. Hard drives are made up... Read more

14 December, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Fujitsu joins the perpendicular storage revolution

...on Wednesday that it will ship its first hard drive to use perpendicular recording in October — a 160GB 2.5-inch drive for laptops. Although... Read more

30 August, 2006 by Peter Judge

Maxtor loads up disk platters

...in devising cost-effective platters for a next-generation recording technology called perpendicular recording. The company plans on Monday to announce that its subsidiary, MMC... Read more

13 October, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

Seagate brings perpendicular storage to the enterprise

Aiming to prove its credentials in the emerging field of perpendicular storage, Seagate has released its first 3.5in drives based on the technology Read more

18 April, 2006 by Colin Barker

Seagate sends perpendicular drive to market

...world, has started to ship its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by 25 percent. The Momentus... Read more

17 January, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Drive density breakthrough from Toshiba

...it has become the first manufacturer to commercially release hard drives with perpendicular recording platters, an industry-wide innovation that greatly increases the amount of... Read more

17 August, 2005 by Michael Kanellos
Terabyte hard drives are ready

Terabyte hard drives are ready

...in capacity for desktop drives comes in part through the introduction of perpendicular recording technology to 3.5-inch-diameter drives. In perpendicular drives, data... Read more

5 January, 2007 by Michael Kanellos
Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive

Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive

...hard drives, which traditionally have offered greater storage capabilities. Fujitsu will utilise perpendicular recording to achieve the new level of 300GB. Its 2.5-inch... Read more

13 December, 2006 by Richard Thurston

Hitachi plans power-saving hybrid laptops

By 2007, Hitachi will be shipping notebooks with built-in encryption and hybrid hard drives that are less power-hungry Read more

1 November, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

A half-century of hard drives

The hard disk drive, invented by IBM 50 years ago, underpins modern computing and will continue to do so for a while yet. But how did today's data storage technology evolve, and what does the future hold? Read more

13 September, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Seagate reveals hard drive roadmap

...of hard drives, intended for digital video recorders and also based on perpendicular recording technology, will now offer a 750GB drive. It will be available... Read more

8 June, 2006 by Candace Lombardi

Toshiba touts data density record with new drive

The new notebook drive has a capacity of 200GB of data, 25 percent more than the 160GB drives touted by Seagate and Hitachi Read more

5 June, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution

...the denser drives in 2007. The density breakthrough represents a refinement in perpendicular recording. Today, hard drives record and store data in a longitudinal fashion... Read more

4 April, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

Magnetic memory moves on

...this week Toshiba also announced that it was using a technique called perpendicular recording to increase the storage capacity of its hard drives. This process... Read more

17 December, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Lifetime of memories stored on a sugar cube?

...possibility. And with the development of technologies such as holographic memory and perpendicular recording, Shadbolt told silicon.com data storage could even outstrip these predictions... Read more

12 December, 2006 by Tim Ferguson

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