Tag Archives: RW heads

Disk trends, revisited

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Ray

An interesting guest post on Claus’s Blog (Claus Mikkelsen of HDS) by Ian Vogelesang of HGST provided some technical/economic insights on why specific disk drives are more economically feasible than others. It’s a bit hard going and more technical than a … Continue reading →

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Sequential only disk?!

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Ray

Was at a Rocky Mountain Magnetics (IEEE) seminar a couple of weeks ago and a fellow from HDS GST was discussing recent advances in bit patterned media (BPM).  They had shown some success at 45nm by 45 nm bit cells … Continue reading →

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