Hard Drive Technology About to Take a Major Leap Forward

1999–2004July 21, 2003Dana BaggettPeripherals
according to this EETimes article. Both SCSI and IDE (ATA) will be moving from parallel to serial interfaces, the new Power Mac G5 will use a serial ATA interface. In addition, the industry will implement perpendicular recording, i.e. the bits stand on end rather than lay down end to end. [Dana Baggett]

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