Perpendicular recording whips up 10GB MicroDrive
By Ryan Block 
posted June 15th 2005 10:21AM
posted June 15th 2005 10:21AM
Uh, we know perpendicular recording is
already starting to yield real-world product benefits on drives being announced for this year, but Tohoku University in
Japan had to go and totally blow our minds with a 10GB 1-inch MicroDrive rockin' the perp. Oh, and guys? Trim them
fingernails.
[Via Akihabara News]
must be a girl
women can show off kick butt microdrives too. *smile*
---f
A girl with MAN HANDS! :D
This can only mean good things especially since digital SLRs like the Canon 1DsII's RAW files are between 45-50MB+ each. That's only 200ish pictures on one of these cards. Not to mention the digital medium formats that's files that are even bigger.
Think of the much higher capacity iPod minis that could use this too. (or other Microdrive based DAP players for the Apple-haters)
Plenty of applications for large, small storage (dang oxymoron).
Nice drive, nasty nails!
Love to see this technology slam both HD DVD and Blue Ray, and be the new Way we all record and rewatch movies!
Uh, is that a guy? Most of the stuff being developed in the far east that I've seen here is usually held by hot asian chicks.
bmw - I think you have no idea how fragile microdrives are, and how casually most people handle their media. A microdrive has to be handled very carefully not to be destroyed. (Mine never leaves my camera.) Inserting or removing microdrives on a regular basis, they are going to be dropped occasionally. Any disc-based medium (CD*, DVD*, BluRay, HD-DVD) can withstand a short drop, but microdrives cannot. This is part of the reason that flash cards are still popular among photographers, rather than microdrives. (Speed is another factor.)
Hmmm... I wonder if I can get one of these into my LifeDrive. :-)
"withstand a short drop, but microdrives cannot."
Bullshit!
"Hmmm... I wonder if I can get one of these into my LifeDrive. :-)"
Of course not...but you CAN use this in your Dell X50v PPC (if you really want to give up your high speed 4GB compact flash card ;-)
Perpendicular recording explained:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
Yeah, I call BS on the whole fragile microdrive comment. I happen to own one of the first 340MB microdrives and I can attest to it surviving many a spill onto bare concrete and still being able play a full length compressed movie off of it with nary a hiccup.
Does this being developed by a university mean that toshiba, seagate et. al. will be descending on them with expenisve gifts, job offers and general bribary to tell them how it was done so they can use the technology and beat the competition? OR do you think toshiba and seatgate already have such prototypes themselves and are just not talking about them until they are less of prototypes?