SEAGATE CLAIMS DENSITY RECORD FOR DISK DRIVES.
Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. Inc is claiming to have demonstrated the
world's highest disk drive areal density The number of bits per square inch of storage surface. It typically refers to disk drives, where the number of bits per inch (bpi) times the number of tracks per inch (tpi) yields the areal density. of greater than 16
billion bits per square-inch - nearly three times the storage capacity
per square inch of any hard disc drive shipping today, it says. Data
transfer rates reached 214 million bits per second, another record, the
company says. The density was achieved by using merged read-write giant
magneto-resistive (GMR (Giant Magnetoresistance) See magnetoresistance. ) heads and ultra-smooth alloy alloy (ăl`oi, əloi`) [O. Fr.,=combine], substance with metallic properties that consists of a metal fused with one or more metals or nonmetals. media, both
designed and manufactured by Seagate, which plans to ship disc drives
utilizing advanced GMR heads later this year. It currently delivers a
50 Gbyte drive in a 3.5-inch form factor.
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