Fujitsu Readies 200GB Notebook Drive
Fujitsu is planning to sell 2.5-inch hard drives with a capacity of 200GB in the first half of 2007, the company says.
Source: PC WorldThe drives, intended for use in notebook PCs, will consist of two disk platters that will store up to 100GB each, for a total of up to 200GB. The largest capacity 2.5-inch drives the company currently sells store 120GB, according to Fred Hirose, a spokesperson for Fujitsu.
The higher capacity will be achieved through the use of perpendicular recording technology in the new disks, Fujitsu says.
Perpendicular recording is a method of storing information using magnetic fields to represent each bit. In disks that are commercially available today, the bits, or magnetic fields, lay flat on the disk surface. In drives using perpendicular recording, the bits stand upright. Because they take less space, more bits can be packed on the disk, and so more recording capacity is available.
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