Maxtor offshoot pushing HD density envelope

Hard disk drive manufacturer Maxtor has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, MMC Technology, has demonstrated a new disk manufacturing process that further ramps up disk density using existing manufacturing equipment.

The company's new perpendicular recording medium (PRM) delivers production costs similar to longitudinal recording media.

"The storage requirements customers demand are rapidly increasing and we need new recording technologies to maintain hard disk drive area density growth trends," said Craig Davis, national sales manager, Maxtor. "By recording data so that it is perpendicular to the read/write head versus current longitudinal recording, more data can be stored in a platter."

"The formula for perpendicular recording success from a disk point of view depends as much on the cost of production as it does on the recording density capability," said Dr Ken Johnson, vice president of research and development at MMC Technology. "We've made achievements in reducing production costs by using existing capital equipment and in improving media performance through technological innovations."

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