Perpendicular Recording Boosts Reliability, Performance – Seagate
 

A representative for Seagate Technologies, the world’s largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), said in an interview that perpendicular recording technology not only allows to improve capacity of HDDs, but also to improve their reliability.

“Perpendicular recording technology increases areal density, allowing more data pass under the drive head, which in turn increases the data transfer rate. Keep in mind that any increase in the areal density of the disc impacts both key hard drive performance factors: positioning speed and data transfer rate. We have also found that perpendicular recording improves reliability,” said Joni Clark, a product marketing manager for Seagate’s desktop PC business unit, in an interview with Sharky Extreme web-site.