NEWS: Seagate First To Market With Perpendicular Tech (?)

[.Nut]

• Seagate To Use Perpendicular Technology For Hard Drives
  
  APRIL 13, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - TOKYO -- Seagate Technology LLC is developing a perpendicular recording technology for hard disk drives and intends to be one of the first companies to use it in its products, the company said today...
  
  Lee declined to specify the company's schedule, but his comments suggest that Seagate could be releasing drives as early as the middle of this year....

See the complete news story at:

http://www.computerworld.com/hardwa...10801,101046,00.html?source=NLT_SU&nid=101046

 

[LunarMist]

I'm still waiting for those lazy particles in the 500GB drive.

 

[sechs]

I may also release a perpendicular drive this year.

 

[Dïscfärm]

I may also release a perpendicular drive this year.

I have a bunch of failed (what else could they be?) Western Digitalis hard drives that are superglued together perpendicularly into an art exhibit. I may just superglue a few more to the periphery and make something more useful out of this eyesore -- something like an artificial reef for fish.