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Effective on the hard disk media research in progress, drive manufacturers expect, last year began using the perpendicular recording technology, is expected to live longer than expected 5 years. This makes the hard drive manufacturers decided to have a high degree of difficulty and cost of new recording technology postponed to 2015. Meanwhile, the gradual integration of the industry in order to seek advantage, hard drive manufacturers WesternDigital has acquired the hard disk maker Komag Inc. disc into the disc and has a design capacity of 3 hard drive head manufacturer. Effective on the hard disk media research progress, drive manufacturers expect, last year began using the perpendicular recording technology, is expected to live longer than expected 5 years. This makes the hard drive manufacturers decided to have a high degree of difficulty and cost of new recording technology postponed to 2015.

  The same time, the gradual integration of the industry in order to seek advantage, hard drive manufacturers WesternDigital has acquired hard disc maker Komag Inc., a disc and have a design capacity of 3 hard drive head manufacturer. Industry observers believe that, due to hard disc will play an important role in the next few years, the field existing in the other three independent manufacturer of hard disc may also have one will be another hard disk maker’s acquisition.

“A year or two ago, we all believe that perpendicular recording technology enables the hard disk is limited to the maximum density per square inch 500Gb, but now we think that it is an opportunity to reach every square inch 1Tb,” the world’s third largest hard drive maker Hitachi Global Storage Technologies chief technical expert JohnBest said.

“Now seems 1Tb per square inch is possible,” WesternDigital company CTOHosseinMoghadam agree.

Hard drive manufacturers are now in transition to a kind of vertical disc can store magnetic charge of the recording technology. Recently, they tried to four different technologies used in storage medium to extend the life of perpendicular recording.

“Stable at room temperature, while extending the life of these storage media in most of the density and has better signal to noise ratio,” Best said.

“We have every reason to believe that perpendicular recording density of at least achieve 1Tb,” a leading global hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology Inc. CTOMarkRe said.

Re noted that Seagate’s R & D in this field in recent years, personnel have more than two years ago was. Once the end of the old longitudinal recording technology related projects, the R & D personnel are often assigned to perpendicular recording on the relevant study, rather than be assigned to plan for the next generation memory technology.

Always pinch pennies on the cost of the entire PC industry, the hard disk has been a long time the most sensitive areas of the cost. Therefore, the market research agency IDC research manager for hard disk JohnRydning companies that profit has become vested as to maintain a major challenge, the slow process of transfer of key technologies, it means the hard drive industry to delay a large investment.

In addition, considering the hard drive manufacturers squeezed in 2.5-inch hard disk capacity of the amount, the 3.5-inch hard disk market may therefore become more and more narrow. Because, even in the density of 500Gb per square inch, the three discs contains a 2.5-inch hard drive can hold 1TB of information.

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