Perpendicular recording promises roomier iPods
News Both use a storage technique called perpendicular recording, first proposed nearly 30 years ago. In normal longitudinal recording, these areas lie flat on the surface of the disk: in perpendicular media, they are stacked on end like straws in a box.
[December 14, 2004, 15:30]
Perpendicular recording promises roomier iPods
Talkback Vertical recording is 20 years old technology having gigabits/sq.in maximum potential.this technology has a 40,000 Terabits/cu.cm.or 40,000,000 Gigabits/cu.cm.maximum potential.http://colossalstorage.net
[December 15, 2004, 16:42]
Seagate sends perpendicular drive to market
News Seagate, the largest hard-drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by percent.
[January 17, 2006, 7:50]
Drive density breakthrough from Toshiba
News Toshiba says 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 data a drive can hold.
[August 17, 2005, 15:55]
Fujitsu joins the perpendicular storage revolution
News Fujitsu announced 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 Fujitsu was among the first to promise perpendicular recording in 2002, others got to...
[August 30, 2006, 14:25]
Maxtor loads up disk platters
News Disk-drive company Maxtor says it has reached a milestone in devising cost-effective platters for a next-generation recording technology called perpendicular recording. With the new media and perpendicular recording technology, Maxtor said it is...
[October 13, 2003, 13:20]
Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution
News The density breakthrough represents a refinement in perpendicular recording. In perpendicular recording, data bits are aligned vertically, allowing for more data to be squeezed into a defined area. Hitachi will actually come out with drives that...
[April 4, 2005, 9:30]
Fujitsu prepares 300GB notebook drive
News Fujitsu will utilise perpendicular recording to achieve the new level of 300GB. Perpendicular recording boosts storage capacity by aligning the magnetic domains vertically. In October, Fujitsu launched a lower capacity drive using perpendicular...
[December 13, 2006, 13:45]
Seagate reveals hard drive roadmap
News Seagate's DB35 Series of hard drives, intended for digital video recorders and also based on perpendicular recording technology, will now offer a 750GB drive. Seagate also announced three new Momentus 2.5-inch notebook hard drives with...
[June 8, 2006, 9:25]
Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
News Toshiba started selling perpendicular drives last year when it came out with a 1.8-inch drive with perpendicular recording. To date, Toshiba has released perpendicular drives with GMR heads and longitudinal drives with TMR heads, but not a...
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
Terabyte hard drives are ready
News The boost in capacity for desktop drives comes in part through the introduction of perpendicular recording technology to 3.5-inch-diameter drives. Drive makers have already released notebook drives, which sport smaller 2.5-inch-diameter drives...
[January 5, 2007, 7:44]
Industry divided over future of hard drives
News Drive manufacturers have bought time with perpendicular drives, which stack the bits vertically. Perpendicular hard drive technology, which started appearing last year, currently lets manufacturers increase drive density, or the amount of data...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Fujitsu joins the perpendicular storage revolution
Talkback Verticle / Perpendicular recording is 30 years old. Not Hardly.
[August 31, 2006, 20:28]
Hitachi claims hard-drive breakthrough
News Hitachi will present these achievements at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference next week in Tokyo. With the new, elegantly named "current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive" heads (CPP-GMR heads), drive makers will be...
[October 15, 2007, 8:10]
Hitachi plans power-saving hybrid laptops
News Perpendicular recording effectively lets disks store more data on a surface than in the past. Hitachi further added that it will ship 4 million perpendicular drives this year. Notebook drives are going to get spruced up in 2007.
[November 1, 2006, 8:55]
Seagate announces 1.5TB in a single drive
News Both drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. Seagate on Thursday unveiled 1.5TB desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives, claiming industry firsts for both. The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market...
[July 11, 2008, 13:06]
Toshiba 1.8-inch hard drive reaches 240GB mark
News They incorporate the fourth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology, which Toshiba first introduced in 2005. Toshiba announced on Tuesday two 1.8-inch hard drives, including the single-platter 120GB (MKxx31GAL series) and the world's...
[September 10, 2008, 10:50]
Magnetic memory moves on
News Earlier this week Toshiba also announced that it was using a technique called perpendicular recording to increase the storage capacity of its hard drives. Toshiba and NEC unveiled a paper this week that showed methods to cut down power consumption...
[December 17, 2004, 9:45]
Disk storage climbs perpendicularly
News Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, which can make hard drives with up to ten times today’s capacity, will be widespread in 2007 and ubiquitous in 2009, according to analyst firm IDC. PMR works by aligning the magnetic zones used to...
[June 27, 2005, 17:10]
Samsung launches two-platter 1TB disk drive
News The Spinpoint F3 line, announced on Tuesday, uses technologies such as perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) to increase storage density. Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end...
[July 30, 2009, 16:20]
