Perpendicular recording can increase magnetic media’s capacity as much as 10 times. That means that microdrives that used to hold about 3,000 songs could provide room for about 30,000 songs. In more ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Perpendicular-recording hard drives are coming, and ...

While the hard-drive industry has been using longitudinal recording successfully for five decades, it is now within two product generations of reaching its practical limit. For about the past decade, ...

After fierce struggles to extend the life of longitudinal magnetic recording as the main technology for another couple of years, the data storage industry is finally coming to terms with reality.

Professor Emeritus Shunichi Iwasaki and Tom Coughlin at PMR Milestone Ceremony in Sendai. On October 9, 2023 I attended the IEEE Engineering Milestone for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) in ...

Breaking new ground in the mobile computing market, Seagate Technology today announced the world's first 2.5-inch disc drive built on perpendicular recording technology - a 160GB notebook PC giant ...

Toshiba claimed a new benchmark in storage density on Tuesday as it unveiled its largest ever 1.8-inch hard drive. The MK8007GAH is an 80GB two-platter hard drive whose 1.8inch diameter is small ...

I just got back from a trip to Japan. While there I met with several people involved in public policy in Tokyo, visited my professor who advised me for my PhD at Shinshu University in Nagano Japan (Dr ...

Toshiba Corp. said today that it is close to commercializing a new data storage technology that could significantly increase the capacity of hard disk drives. The company plans to put on sale in the ...

San Jose, Calif. – Perpendicular recording, a technology that has been in the lab nearly 20 years, has come to light in 2.5-inch disk drives. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. said it has had a ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...