Seagate floods with drives and an 8GB 1-inch

It's all well and good that Seagate launched a massive lineup of ten new drives of all types today (highlights include yet another 500GB drive intended for DVRs, the DB35 series), but you might want to think twice about that measly 4GB LifeDrive or Nokia N91 now that they've got their new 8GB 1-inch ST1 drives ready to go (they may not be the first with an 8GB 1-incher, they appear to be the first shipping). Also on the platter is the Momentus 5400.3, the first 2.5-inch laptop drive to actually implement perpendicular recording for a juicy capacity of up to 160GB. Ah, what a time to be alive.

[Via GeekZone]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

ok, im sorry, but what exactly is perpendicular recording...can sombody point me towards a decent explanation...all i know is it give HDD more sapce, but id like to understand it...

thanks.
teksno

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

Reply to #1:

This is all you need:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

teksno-
Perpendicular recording is a way of writing data perpendicular do the surface of the hdd. instead of writing across, it writes downwards instead.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

"Also on the platter"

Please tell me that's a pun-intended.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

thanks guys...

on a side note...

i miss school house rock...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

All these faster and larger capacity Hard drives are being announced by Seagate and Hitachi, but they are no where to be found. I've been wanted to purchase the Seagate Momentus 120GB 5400rpm 2.5" drive for months now and nobody is selling it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

So the damn N91 is obselete before it hits the freakin' shelves. This is a hot ass mess.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

Skeletor, perhaps you should stop making such a mess with your hot ass then, don't ya think?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

I want some hot ass...

On another, I bet the guys who recorded that song, looked hilarious when they were singing it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

ok, 160 gb on a laptop is absolutely wonderful, but i wasnt speed!

i'm about to buy a new lappy, and i'm more or less planing on getting the smallest, cheepest hard drive avaliable for it and swaping in an after market 7200 rpm drive.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:54AM]

Now you can proudly exclaim "It's only an inch baby, but it's plenty big."