Considering this posting and all the recent postings about hard drive size and
capacity, I thought I'd post links to a series of related articles I wrote a
few years ago for eWeek magazine (the one that used to be PC Week)... just in
case anyone else finds this stuff as interesting as I do. The articles are
about R&D work for tapes and hard drives.
11/1201 --
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,40037,00.asp
5/27/02 --
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,8532,00.asp
7/15/02 --
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,373929,00.asp
4/21/03 --
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1502007,00.asp (two pages)
--- Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote:
Stumbled upon this while looking for something
actually useful
(eg. disk drive reliability data -- yeah right). Its more or less
market hype, mainly the forward projections, but the interesting
part are some good drawings of head topology,
density-over-the-ages charts. Good drawing of perpendicular head
design.
IBM by way of Hitachi.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/hddpdf/tech/hdd_technology2003.pdf
It's an ugly old PDF, sorry.
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