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• To advance drives, Hitachi changes the head

October 14, 2007 9:01 PM PDT

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' giant magneto-resistive head will have perpendicular current and will allow the company to increase the density of drives.

Pictured is a diagram of a current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magneto-resistive heads or CPP-GMR for short.

Photo by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

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