and Now it looks like Seagate is buying into the technology and promising perpendicular drives for 3rd quarter.
Seagate promises perpendicular drives
Seagate is joining the race to get perpendicular disc drives ready for market. The firm joins Toshiba and Hitachi Global Storage who have both previously announced research into the storage method.
A spokesman for the firm told El Reg: "We are working on this technology and expect products by the end of the year."
The technology increases the capacity of hard drives. Data is stored vertically rather than just horizontally on individual discs.
Seagate vice president of sales Randy Lee said, according to IDG, "We invest between eight and ten per cent of our revenue each quarter on R&D and we have invested in perpendicular technology for many years...We will be one of the first...to introduce this to production."
Toshiba has promised perpendicular drives in the third quarter of 2005 so the race is now on to see who gets to market first.®
It will be interesting to see how it comes into the market
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That is one of the funniest (if not THE funniest) things I have seen a manufacturer do to promote a new technology!!! LOL!!!!
That is pretty cool though, how much more do you think a "perpendicular" drive will cost than a traditional one??
I would say its going to be quite near the same price, as it isnt so much as creating new platters as just formatting and storing the information differently, which will require some different chips.
It will probably be similar to NCQ, which greatly sped up the drives, but did not increase the price substantially .
with "up to 10x the storage", I would definitely expect there to be a price premium. So don't expect a 1,000 GB drive to cost the same as a 100 GB drive currently does.
No, but Im not expecting them to make them in sizes that large. Most likely they will be utilizing them on smaller platter drives to make them larger and put down cost.
IE instead of a 3 platter 80gb drive we drop it down to a single platter and therefore drop price considerably. This will probably be big big laptop hardware, because as it is now we are extremely limited on laptop drive sizes due to how much a platter can efficiently store. By going perpendicular we can effectively raise the quantity to much higher levels.
deadly-app wrote:No, but Im not expecting them to make them in sizes that large. Most likely they will be utilizing them on smaller platter drives to make them larger and put down cost.
IE instead of a 3 platter 80gb drive we drop it down to a single platter and therefore drop price considerably. This will probably be big big laptop hardware, because as it is now we are extremely limited on laptop drive sizes due to how much a platter can efficiently store. By going perpendicular we can effectively raise the quantity to much higher levels.
