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Submission + - How Far Can Perpendicular Recording Go? (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by peterkern on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @01:40PM

peterkern writes: Samsung has a new hard drive and says it can now store 667 GB on one disk, which comes out to be about 739 Gb/inch2. That is more than five times the density when perpendicular recording was introduced back in 2006 and is getting close to the generally believes soft limit of 1 Tb/inch2. It’s great that we can now store 2 TB on one hard drive and 3 TB hard drives are already feasible. But how far can it go? It appears that the hard drive industry may start talking about heat-assisted magnetic recording soon, again.

Submission + - Firefox May Overtake IE in Europe This Month (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by peterkern on Monday August 02, 2010 @03:36AM

peterkern writes: History in the making: It appears that the July browser market share reports are somewhat inconsistent, but if we believe StatCounter, then it looks like Firefox will be overtaking Microsoft’s IE in terms of market share next month. Both browsers are now within 1 point of 40% market share – IE above and Firefox below. Europeans appear to be more crazy about Firefox than Americans: In Germany, Firefox has a stunning 61% market share, while IE has only 25%. Google’s Chrome is, according to StatCounter, now above 10% market share. ConceivablyTech has more details, including market share data from StatCounter and NetApplications.

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