explained by singing harddrive parts in wacky flash animation. its pretty catchy!
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
That rocks. But now I keep singing “Get perpendicular…get perpendicular.”
I’m also trying to wrap my head around 30,000 songs in the palm of my hand.
Have I even heard 30,000 distinct songs in my lifetime?
This is great!
Of course it’ll be a while before we actually see them, it will probably wind up cheaper to buy two 500 GB harddrives when the first 1 TB comes out :).
Bah, didn’t you guys see the IBM announcement of millipede? (No, not the arcade game). New storage technology they developed. It can hold 25 DVD’s worth of data on the size of a postage stamp. It’ll take a few years for it to get into consumer devices, but that’s just freaky.