Posted by: Jason O'Grady
Date: Thursday, April 28th, 2005, 08:44
Category: Hardware

Several sources are reporting that Fujitsu is preparing a 200GB (2.5-inch) notebook drive. The new mobile hard drive will feature perpendicular recording technology according to IDG News.

Perpendicular recording is a method of storing information using magnetic fields to represent each bit. In disks that are commercially available today, the bits, or magnetic fields, lay flat on the disk surface. In drives using perpendicular recording, the bits stand upright. Because they take less space, more bits can be packed on the disk, and so more recording capacity is available.

Finally, a hard drive that keeps up with Moore’s Law you say? No quite. The bad news is that the new 200GB drive is not slated to ship until the first half of 2007. Yes, 2007.

Several sources are reporting that Fujitsu is preparing a 200GB (2.5-inch) notebook drive. The new mobile hard drive will feature perpendicular recording technology according to IDG News.

Perpendicular recording is a method of storing information using magnetic fields to represent each bit. In disks that are commercially available today, the bits, or magnetic fields, lay flat on the disk surface. In drives using perpendicular recording, the bits stand upright. Because they take less space, more bits can be packed on the disk, and so more recording capacity is available.

Finally, a hard drive that keeps up with Moore’s Law you say? No quite. The bad news is that the new 200GB drive is not slated to ship until the first half of 2007. Yes, 2007.