Toshiba ships 'perpendicular' disk drive..

[IGBT]

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The higher capacity gives Toshiba an edge as it seeks design wins against lower-capacity but smaller one-inch sized drives in MP3 players and higher capacity 2.5-inch drives in notebook computers. Toshiba?s previous product put 30-Gbytes on a 1.8-inch platter using conventional longitudinal recording.

The announcement marks the beginning of the end of a 20-year quest to commercialize perpendicular recording to boost drive capacity. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Seagate Technology are expected to ship 2.5- and 3.5-inch drives using perpendicular recording later this year.

 

[MustISO]

Nice! Now all I need is a 10GB CF card.

 

[svi]

They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

 

[anarchyreigns]

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

First thing I'm gonna do when they come out is get myself one of those talking Hitachi drives.

 

[Lonyo]

Will higher densities lead to improved speeds since heads will have less distance t move to read/write data?
And might we see bigger capacity Raptors and the like?

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

thats awesome

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

thats awesome

hell yes it is, ive watched it like 50 times, easy

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

I don't know whats wierder. Watching little bits dancing with absolutlely sucky voices, or the fact that a serious company like Hitachi created it. lol

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

thats awesome

hell yes it is, ive watched it like 50 times, easy

:laugh:

 

[Coolin]

I don't get it.

60gb 1.8 inch drives already exist using the old "non-perpendicular" technology (just look at the iPod Photo 60GB Edition). This 40gb drive sounds like a failure to me, you'd think Toshiba would release their new technology with a bang by breaking some existing storage barriers.

 

[anarchyreigns]

NM

 

[CrimsonCutie]

Originally posted by: Kensai

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

thats awesome

hell yes it is, ive watched it like 50 times, easy

:laugh:

OMG i love that video!!!!

 

[AiponGkooja]

Originally posted by: Kensai

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot

Originally posted by: ShadowBlade

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

thats awesome

hell yes it is, ive watched it like 50 times, easy

:laugh:

Ok...I'm gonna go lie down for a while and hope that songs leaves my head...

 

[ArneBjarne]

Originally posted by: Coolin
I don't get it.

60gb 1.8 inch drives already exist using the old "non-perpendicular" technology (just look at the iPod Photo 60GB Edition). This 40gb drive sounds like a failure to me, you'd think Toshiba would release their new technology with a bang by breaking some existing storage barriers.

40GB is per platter, up from 30GB on the earlier model you mention. Hence the new 2-platter drives will have 80GB total instead of 60GB.

 

[d2arcturus]

Originally posted by: svi
They might be first to the gate, but they still can't match Actuator Man.

Still, nice. Lower density than the prototypes and first estimates, but that's to be expected.. they have to leave themselves room to go up, and besides, it never hurts to be a little conservative in the hard drive business.

HAH, that is an excellent video.

Hitachi deserves .