Get Perpendicular!

Hitachi recently announced that they've come up with a way to arrange the magnetic elements of hard drives perpendicularly, allowing for 20GB microdrives (like the 6GB one in the iPod mini) and 1TB desktop drives in 2007.

Want to know how it works but don't have the engineering knowledge to understand the white papers? No problem, just check out this groovy music video Hitachi cooked up!