The First 3.5" Perpendicular Recording Hard Drive

Seagate’s big news today is the announcement of an update to its flagship enterprise disk, the Cheetah 15K.4. The new model, the Cheetah 15K.5 will become Seagate’s top-of-the-line 15,000 RPM disk and the industry’s first 3.5″ disk with perpendicular recording. The new drive will feature capacity up to 300GB and will be available in SAS, Ultra320 SCSI, and fibre channel interfaces.

These drives are not really for the everyday computer user, but 300GB at 15,000RPM speeds is amazing. It will not be long before we can have this tech in our desktop hard drives also. Read a lot more at XYZ Computing.