Web News: Seagate goes perpendicular with hard drives

Lokie · 08-June-05, 06:25 PM

Seagate Technologies has unveiled 10 new hard drives, including its first hard drive to use next-generation perpendicular-recording technology, the company said Wednesday.

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	The external storage hard drives are marketed under Seagate's Barracuda and Momentus brands. The internal drives include the company's first-ever design for the automotive industry, an 8GB 1-inch drive for portable media players, and a 500GB capacity disc drive for home entertainment systems that can store as much as 85 hours of high-definition TV. Of particular note is the company's first 2.5-inch drive built on perpendicular recording technology. The 160GB storage drive was initially designed for notebooks, but Seagate expects to modify it for other consumer devices, as well. Perpendicular recording is the next phase of drive storage, according to Brian Dexheimer, an executive vice president of worldwide sales at Seagate. Instead of lying flat, the disc is magnetized so that the bits stand on end. The result is a drive that can hold almost double the amount of data of current designs.

SexyPants · 10-June-05, 09:57 AM

At first I thought "wow, they stole that one" but I guess it'll probably be the standard some day, so somebody has to.

How fast do these perpendicular drives go anyway?

stereomod · 10-June-05, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by _Sexy_Pants_


	At first I thought "wow, they stole that one" but I guess it'll probably be the standard some day, so somebody has to. How fast do these perpendicular drives go anyway?

Here Sexy Pants

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	Momentus 5400.3, a 5,400-rpm drive, will be Seagate's first to bring the higher capacities and performance of perpendicular recording to mainstream

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	Next year Seagate will extend the advantages of perpendicular recording to Momentus 7200.1, a 7,200-rpm drive designed for mobile workstations and other high-performance notebook computing applications

Complete article here ------> http://www.physorg.com/news4441.html

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