[geek/toys] done waiting for perpendicular recording hard drives

When I built my current gaming / htpc computer almost a year ago one of the reasons I put off buying a new drive was reports that perpendicular recording was coming.

"...linear hard disk recordings max out at 100 to 200 Gb/in². Perpendicular recording is expected to increase the amount of available storage space to up to 5-10 times that..."

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