Seagate Launches High Capacity Hard Drives

TroganTrogan London, UK
edited January 2006 in Science & 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.
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"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!

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    I'll wait a generation or two.... Anyone remember "pixie dust"? :shakehead
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2006
    primesuspect wrote:
    ...Anyone remember "pixie dust"? :shakehead
    Yes, along with the Challenger disaster, the Hindenburg, and the Titanic. :rolleyes:
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    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.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2006
    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.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2006
    Pixie Dust.

    It didn't work, to put it mildly... :banghead:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    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
  • zero-counterzero-counter Linux Lubber San Antonio Member
    edited January 2006
    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.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    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.
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