Perpendicular Hard Drives

I read on slashdot about Hitachi's new technology for increasing hard drive capacity. It involves taking the bits on the drive and organizing them perpendicularly, so that more bits can be added.

The following is a flash animation that explains the whole thing in layman's terms, which is actually quite funny.

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