Overview Capacity and areal density New-generation technologies Head technology Interfaces Rotational speed Buffers/cache

Reliability Diagnosis, validation, and verification Power management Servos and sectors

Capacity and areal density

• IBM 'Pixie Dust' breakthrough to quadruple disk drive density

New-generation technologies

• IBM Legacy: Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle Motors

Head technology

• The era of giant magnetoresistive heads

Interfaces

• Leveraging the benefits of Ultra160 SCSI technology
• Confused by interfaces?
• Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) -- A cost-effective, high-performance hard disk drive interface

Rotational speed

• Hard drive performance -- Industry-leading performance with Ultrastar 10,000 rpm disk drives

Buffers/cache

• Write caching improves server performance

Reliability

• Hard disk drive load/unload technology
• Hard disk drive reliability -- a behind-the-scenes look at how its done
• Drive Temperature Indicator Processor (Drive-TIP) helps ensure high drive reliability

Diagnosis, validation, and verification

• Drive Fitness Test: a technology designed to help users diagnose hard drive operations
• Predictive failure analysis

Power management

• Adaptive Battery Life Extender- a technology that minimizes battery use in all current Travelstar drives

Servos and sectors

• The advantages of Servo-write technology
  
• TrueTrack Servo Technology
• The No-ID Sector Format dramatically increases storage capacity