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3.5in hard drive platters with a capacity of 640GB now just around the corner?
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3.5in hard drive platters with a capacity of 640GB now just around the corner?
Mark me down as interested. Can never have enough space! Recently got my first 2TB, and I'm planning to install more 2TB (replacing old 1TBs as I go).
I must have been in a black hole for a while, I didnt even realise TDK made hard disks
I think they only manufacture the techniques to make the platters?
TDK are kinda like 3M I believe, they have their hand in pretty much everything. Solving processes and problems others can't!
I guess they might actually manufacture some of the production equipment as well as opposed to making retail drives.
Just like their work on 10 layer BluRay disks, it will be Panasonic or Sony that actually commercialise it once TDK have perfected it in the lab.
Yes, TDK are still one of the big players in magnetic technology - Ultrium tapes for example. The are a bit like BASF used to be, make the equipment, and I think also make a lot of the tape stock or ferromagnetic stock that is used to create the platters,
They are a very diverse compant though
www.tdk.com if you want a crawl round the site
I didn't realise they manufactured quite so many components. Been meaning to look up the site, but didn't get round to it until now.Quote:
Originally Posted by peterb
I guess there appearance as a recordable media company was just their public face, a bit like 3M being known for sticky tape and yellow note pads with a sticky strip.
Yes, it was a surprise to me - especially capacitors - but then, if they are making mylar or polypropylene film for tapes etc, then it is the same film that would be the dielectric in non-electrolytic caps. So it does make sense!
Very interesting site.
Like others I would just expect to see info on recordable media, kinda like:
http://www.tdk-media.eu
Will be glad when Samsung release an F series 3Tb drive :D then I can upgrade my RAID array to 6Tb ;)