This article may interest you.
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:48:17 +1200
> HGST will begin selling hard-disk drives based on perpendicular
> recording later this year
>
> * By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service*
> April 04, 2005
>
> Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) will later this year begin
> selling hard-disk drives based on perpendicular recording, a yet-to-be
> commercialized recording method that should enable engineers to continue
> increasing drive storage capacity beyond today's limits, HGST is due to
> announce Monday.
> The company is already testing sample drives based on perpendicular
> recording and says the technology could allow for 1TB desktop drives or
> 20GB Microdrives in 2007.
>
> More here:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/04/HN1tbdesktopdrives_1.html
>
> --
> Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig>
> ICQ number 112663246
> Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786
> Award winning web site at http://modecideas.com?sig
> PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/index.html?sig
> Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.
>
>
>
>