Seagate Targeting Perpendicular Recording Hard Drive

Seagate Targeting Perpendicular Recording Hard Drive

Both Toshiba and Hitachi have made their plans clear of launching drives running on the latest perpendicular recording technology. The products from these companies should start appearing in the market by the end of current year with 2007 being the year where it should start replacing the traditional storage media. The latest news in is that the market leader and the giant in the storage industry Seagate also has made clear their plans in this segment.

Seagate has said that they are also actively developing their drives, which would be using perpendicular recording technology. This comes after Hitachi made their plans clear that they would soon begin using the technology to manufacture smaller drives for portable music players and similar devices. Leading to perhaps Apple iPod Mini with around 20 GB storage capacities.

The target for the time being seems like reaching one TB storage for the desktop computers, which Hitachi says they would soon reach after the transitional period where hard disks with less dense, would be available in the market. Seagate plans to follow suit with their hard disks and expects to release some early models by the end of the current year.

Reports say that Seagate delivered the sample drives using these latest technologies last year end itself.