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Seagate brings perpendicular storage to the enterprise
News Seagate has announced its first 3.5in disk drives using the groundbreaking perpendicular storage technology that it hopes will break through the storage limitations that are beginning to impact on hard-drive technology.
[April 18, 2006, 13:45]
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]
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]
Fujitsu joins the perpendicular storage revolution
News Although Fujitsu was among the first to promise perpendicular recording in 2002, others got to market sooner with the technology, which increases the capacity of hard disks by aligning the magnetic domains vertically.
[August 30, 2006, 14:25]
Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution
News Hitachi will actually come out with drives that employ perpendicular-recording techniques toward the end of this year, but these first drives won't be nearly as dense - holding only around 2.5GB to 2.9GB per square centimetre - and will mostly...
[April 4, 2005, 9:30]
Seagate sends perpendicular drive to market
News Drive makers hit on the idea of perpendicular recording a few years ago, but have only started employing the technology on mass-manufactured products. Seagate, the largest hard-drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive...
[January 17, 2006, 7:50]
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. In perpendicular drives, data can be stored in vertical columns, rather than on a single plane.
[January 5, 2007, 7:44]
Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
News To date, Toshiba has released perpendicular drives with GMR heads and longitudinal drives with TMR heads, but not a perpendicular TMR drive. The drive combines perpendicular data storage platters. Perpendicular platters store data in vertical...
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
Industry divided over future of hard drives
News Perpendicular hard drive technology, which started appearing last year, currently lets manufacturers increase drive density, or the amount of data stored, by around 50 percent annually. Drive manufacturers have bought time with perpendicular drives...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Perpendicular recording promises roomier iPods
News Our research confirmed the superior potential of perpendicular recording technology, and we have now achieved the core head and disk technologies required for reliable, high-density recording," said Kazuyoshi Yamamori, Toshiba's vice-president of...
[December 14, 2004, 15:30]
Hitachi stresses chemistry on perpendicular drives
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies isn't the first company to come out with a perpendicular hard drive, but it claims it has a better chemistry set. The storage division of the Japanese giant has announced its 160GB Travelstar 5K160, Hitachi's...
[May 15, 2006, 9:05]
Hitachi plans power-saving hybrid laptops
News Hitachi further added that it will ship 4 million perpendicular drives this year. Perpendicular recording effectively lets disks store more data on a surface than in the past. Rivals such as Seagate Technology and Samsung will come out with similar...
[November 1, 2006, 8:55]
Drive density breakthrough from Toshiba
News Next year, perpendicular recording technology will appear in its 2.2cm diameter drives. Toshiba says it has become the first manufacturer to commercially release hard drives with perpendicular recording platters, an industry-wide innovation that...
[August 17, 2005, 15:55]
Seagate unveils 12GB minidrive
News It also offers a new optional drop sensor for increased robustness, the company said in a statement, and is the first one-inch drive to use Seagate's perpendicular storage technology. Cornice's storage is "a natural fit for the mobile phone market...
[February 13, 2006, 17:20]
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]
Carbon nanotubes rise up food chain
News Initially, Nantero proposed making memory cells in which a single nanotube would connect or detach from a perpendicular nanotube below it. A large semiconductor maker has signed a deal with Nantero to use its technology for making memory with...
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Hitachi claims hard-drive breakthrough
News With the new, elegantly named "current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive" heads (CPP-GMR heads), drive makers will be able to come out with 4TB (terabyte) drives in 2011 and/or 1TB notebook drives.
[October 15, 2007, 8:10]
Fujitsu promises 170GB notebook hard drives
News The technology, called "current perpendicular to plane," improves on the current giant magneto resistive head technology. Fujitsu has developed new hard drive technology that may help to stem the expected slowdown in the rate of growth for hard...
[May 13, 2002, 9:02]
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]
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. The technology increases the number of bits...
[June 27, 2005, 17:10]
