15,000rpm. 300GB. 125 megabytes per second. Sustained. These are the vital statistics of Seagate's new Cheetah 15K.5 drive, the first 3.5-inch drive employing Perpendicular Recording.

Using perpendicular storage, Seagate have crammed more than ever before into a laptop. 160GB, in fact, with performance to match.

Hollywood studios may insist on DRM for the next generation of small-yet-capacious perpendicular recording hard drives. Who controls the contents of your Video iPod - you, or Hollywood?

Fujitsu puts a new spin on perpendicular recording to achieve unheard of HDD data densities

Seagate have announced a 8GB 1-inch hard drive, or Microdrive, and Hitachi expect to hit 60GB within 5 years using Perpendicular Recording.