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[The Faceless Master]

While Seagate and Hitachi may have garnered all the attention surrounding new perpendicular recording technology, which enables hard drives to store more data by standing bits upright, Toshiba has reached the market first.

The company on Tuesday announced it is shipping a 1.8-inch drive that packs 40GB onto a single disk platter. Such a feat is a breakthrough for small drives, and could mean larger capacity music players. In fact, Toshiba's new drive is available now in the company's Gigabeat F41 MP3 player.

Source: BetaNews

oh man, imagine a 40GB mp3 player the size of my H10, or someone hacking one of those bad boys into a PSP

 

[Date of Lies]

pics?

 

[The Faceless Master]

 

[anotheriori]

ipod super mini!

 

[Azure Dream]

It's Revolution siz- *beaten senseless*

 

[Vormund]

Wow that's awesome technology...very clever.

Spoiler

I have no fucking idea what I'm looking at

 

[Zaptruder]

Wow that's awesome technology...very clever.

Spoiler

I have no fucking idea what I'm looking at

Hard drives store digital information magnetically; with North > South reading a 0 (or 1, not sure), and South > North reading as the opposing bit.

All hard drives up till now I'm assuming has stored the N>S S>N information in a flat manner, but the new perpendicular drives stores each bit in a vertical manner (N>S S>N stacked ontop of each other), effectively halving the surface space required to store information.

See diagram to clarify.

 

[regret]

oh yeah!

Get Perpendicular

 

[BuG]

How long before HDD MP3 players Get Perpendicular? I'm wanting to buy one very soon but if there's going to be a super small one coming in the next six months or so I'd be prepared to wait.

But fuck, that's tiny.

 

[MrPing1000]

oh yeah!

Get Perpendicular

omg :lol

 

[Ruzbeh]

If Sony were to release a PSP with a HDD like that, instant buy. Or if some people would find a way to make it work with the current PSP, instant buy.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

Get Perpendicular

That's awesome. :lol

 

[sgt]

Mmm, I'm picturing a 40gb iPod shuffle right now!

 

[hooo]

Mmm, I'm picturing a 40gb iPod shuffle right now!

=P Shuffles are solid state aren't they? And don't the mini's used the even smaller .85 inch drive?

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

oh yeah!

Get Perpendicular

Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock, technology is keen!