Morning Coffee: Sept. 18, 2006
The key metric of portable computing has become the capacity and ruggedness of mass storage. Seagate Technology’s Momentus 5400.3 (photo at right courtesy of Seagate) was the first 2.5-inch drive to use perpendicular recording, achieving 160 GB capacity;
Morning Coffee: Sept. 18, 2006 – Slide 2
In the same week, though, the breath of obsolescence blew down the back of the neck of all magnetic storage, which can’t get much denser unless someone rewrites physics.
Morning Coffee: Sept. 18, 2006 – Slide 3
Morning Coffee: Sept. 18, 2006 – Slide 4
