SDK claims world first for perpendicular HDD production
PrintPunching out 40GB, 1.8in platters
Posted in Storage, 19th July 2005 09:44 GMT
Free whitepaper – Comparison of Static and Rotary UPS
Japan's Showa Denko KK (SDK) has become the first manufacturer in the world to put a hard drive using the perpendicular recording technique into mass production, the company claimed today.
The 1.89in platter is pitched at small, mobile devices and offers a storage capacity of 40GB, double the capacity of a platter using the traditional longitudinal recording system.
SDK also said it had begun production of a 0.85in model.
Perpendicular recording increases disk capacity by aligning the millions of magnetic domains at 90° to the disk's surface rather than parallel to it.
Almost all hard drive manufacturers are working on perpendicular product, regarded as the next stage in the evolution of the HDD. Toshiba, Seagate and Hitachi have all announced perpendicular drives, but as yet none have shipped product. Seagate, for example, is expected to ship its 160GB, 2.5in hard drive in Q4, targeting notebooks. Toshiba is expected to begin mass production of a perpendicular 1.8in, 80GB drive shortly. ®
Related stories
Seagate pledges first 2.5in perpendicular HDD
Seagate promises perpendicular drives
Hitachi headstand sets new HD density record
Toshiba unveils 80GB 'iPod drive'
Free whitepaper – Guidelines for specification of data center power density
The Register Agile Data Center Summit
What Exchange can't do - and Dell can
New storage architectures make SSDs more cost-effective
Dell PowerEdge R710 solution with VMware ESX vs. Dell PowerEdge 2850 solution
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Dell is beat by The Street
NetApp doubles profits ahead of Fujitsu love-in
Google and the myth of the open cloud
IBM lab builds computerized cat brain