Perpendicular storage demystified
Here’s an overview of how perpendicular hard drive technology works.
What is a perpendicular hard drive
A new storage technology that allows for up to 10 times the storage capacity on a hard drive. So a 100 GB drive that uses standard storage techniques could be a 1 TB drive (about 1000 GB) if perpendicular storage technology is used instead.
How does it work?
Hard drives are magnetic disks that spin. A head moves over the disk and changes the polarity of tiny areas, representing bits, on the disk. Polarity can be flipped horizontally.
In perpendicular storage, the bits stand up like the rocks in Stonehenge. And their polarity changes from top to bottom, thereby allowing more bit to be crammed together.
