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Perpendicular Hard Drives

ZernheltZernhelt Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm thinking about buying a new hard drive for my computer, and I'm thinking about looking at perpendicular hard drives. Is there any down side to these? I've already decided on buying a 500 GB hard drive, so I'm really looking at perpendicular mostly because it's a new technology that I want to try.

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    Sk1nnyManSk1nnyMan Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I see no reason why not, it is just a natural evolution of the read-write head on a hard disk, there are no other major hard disk differences.

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    tech_huntertech_hunter More SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I have been using a 320 gig perpendicular drive for about 2 years now no problems and works great, this is a sata drive too so pretty snappy.

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    SinheliopistostophelesSinheliopistostopheles __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2007
    Can putting a regular harddrive on it's side kill it completely?

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    stigweardstigweard Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    No, you can mount hard drives however you want. It is changing the angle of them while they are in motion that is dangerous. They are referring to the technology inside the drive, not how they are mounted.

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    Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2007
    I've been running two perpendicular 500 gig drives for about two months now with zero issues. Well... zero issues once I actually got them up and running. Installation was a bitch, but only because they're SATA, and I'm running a four-year-old motherboard.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

    i just have to.

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    EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    They're great. Newer technology that's been around a while.

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    yotesyotes Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    cooljammer00 wrote: »
    http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

    i just have to.

    Oh, wow, this is too awesome.

    Is the ten fold increase of data density actually realistic, though?

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