Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 04/23/06 18:49

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:37:23 -0400, "Matthew L. Martin"
<nothere@notnow.never> Gave us:

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>The technology isn't new. Those of us who were following the future of
>hard drive storage were reading the white papers in the early '80s. If a
>whole host of other (read cheaper) tricks and gimmicks hadn't worked,
>perpendicular would have been trotted out a long time ago.

Bullshit. It is new. It isn't "read cheaper" it is WRITE with higher
integrity, and no, we did NOT have the capacity to write Gigabits per
lineal inch back then, dumbass.

It was only about six years ago that IBM was able to write 15
Megabits per lineal inch with their MR technology, which nearly ALL HD
maker still use to this day.

It isn't a gimmick. It is a new adoption of an old technology with
many changes incorporated into it that were NOT possible until
recently.

It most certainly was NOT around back in the eighties, the days of
ten MB hard drives. It took us years just to get up to ONE GB!

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