Seagate Ships 16 Millionth Perpendicular Recording Hard Drive
 

Seagate is pushing their new Perpendicular Recording HDDs, but currently they only make up 10% of their shipments:

"Perpendicular recording gets its name from the vertical alignment of data bits on the plane of the disk, which takes less room in contrast to the horizontal orientation of today’s longitudinal recording technology. To be accurately recorded and read, the more closely-packed perpendicular bits also require a closer association between the read/write head and the recording media.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage...206232501.html