Seagate Launches High Capacity Hard Drives

16 Jan, 2006 at 12:58pm ET Article published in Tech

Seagate has started shipping a notebook PC hard drive that overcomes an obstacle many feared would be a major roadblock to the further expansion of disk capacity and the overall growth of the storage industry.

By storing bits in a vertical, or perpendicular, arrangement, engineers are able to boost capacity by taking advantage of the real estate that is freed up. It’s a major change that all drive makers are in the process of undertaking, said John Donovan, vice president at the research firm TrendFocus.

“It’s a whole new way of doing things,” he said. “Not only do you have to change the thinking, but the tooling, the way the heads and disks interact with each other.”

Source: Yahoo!

Comments

16 Jan 2006 ~ 2:10pm primesuspect I'll wait a generation or two.... Anyone remember "pixie dust"? :shakehead
16 Jan 2006 ~ 3:10pm profdlp

primesuspect wrote:

...Anyone remember "pixie dust"? :shakehead

Yes, along with the Challenger disaster, the Hindenburg, and the Titanic.
16 Jan 2006 ~ 4:34pm Garg I might have remembered the the Challenger disaster, the Hindenburg, and the Titanic, but I had a little bit too much "pixie dust," and my memory is a bit fuzzy these days.
16 Jan 2006 ~ 5:03pm madmat

primesuspect wrote:

I'll wait a generation or two.... Anyone remember "pixie dust"? :shakehead

Nope, I've heard the term bantered about but have no idea what it was/is.
16 Jan 2006 ~ 5:12pm profdlp Pixie Dust.

It didn't work, to put it mildly... :banghead:
16 Jan 2006 ~ 6:00pm primesuspect Yeah, all IBM "Deathstar" 60GXP and 65GXPs used it... Guess what the failure rate after anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of years was? About 95% ... IBM got sued and eventually sold their storage division to Hitachi... :shakehead
16 Jan 2006 ~ 7:54pm zero-counter

primesuspect wrote:

Yeah, all IBM "Deathstar" 60GXP and 65GXPs used it... Guess what the failure rate after anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of years was? About 95% ... IBM got sued and eventually sold their storage division to Hitachi... :shakehead

Haha...It is funny that I can laugh at that now. The company I used to work for around that time, had just got a small contract for a school district here in San Antonio. We used those drives on some of our custom builds...approximately 75. Fortunately, the district had asked that the teacher's computers have the IBM deskstars used, since they may require more space....long story short, everyone of the boxes eventually had to be replaced with some WDs.
16 Jan 2006 ~ 11:34pm Garg

zero.counter wrote:

Haha...It is funny that I can laugh at that now. The company I used to work for around that time, had just got a small contract for a school district here in San Antonio. We used those drives on some of our custom builds...approximately 75. Fortunately, the district had asked that the teacher's computers have the IBM deskstars used, since they may require more space....long story short, everyone of the boxes eventually had to be replaced with some WDs.

Ah man, that would have sucked. I can just imagine getting calls from schools, every week with a few more dead boxes.