Future trends in hard disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1850-1854

  Grochowski, Edward ^a   Hoyt, Roger F ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MOTORS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PRODUCT DESIGN; RELIABILITY; SPECIFICATIONS;

AREAL DENSITY; MAGNETORESISTIVE HEADS; STORAGE CAPACITY;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0030149018     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.492876     Document Type: Article

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