Perpendicular Hard Drive Recording Technology?

[Blazing Bolt]

Ok so my HD started making the click of death about a month ago and since then it has gotten worse.
I started researching new hard drives with SATA II Interface and 16MB Cache when I ran across a Seagate with Perpendicular Hard Drive Recording Technology.

From all the research I have done this seems to be the direction hard drives are going due to limitations in usable storage space.
My question for whoever else knows about such things is this?

Are there any draw backs to using one of these newer hard drives? Should I wait awhile before attempting to buy a Perpendicular Hard Drive?
What are the advantages of using one of these vs. a same size hard drive with the old technology? (Don’t know what it is called)

[khain13]

I'm not sure about any other companies, but I hear Seagate's perpindicular recording drives are rock solid. Really the only difference is that the magnetic bits on the platter are standing up like this ||||| instead of laying flat like this _ _ _ _ _ _, so you can see how more information can fit in the same space. The other advantage is that you should see a small increase in read performance, since the read heads would not have to move as far to read contiguous data, but the bad news is that the performance increase so far isn't really noticable. Maybe when you get up to multi-terrabyte drives and you're reading a file that is several gigs in size the speed boost might be more noticable. Bottom line is this: the tech has had no problems that I've heard of and you can get a single drive that holds 750 GB.

[Mikecx]

I'm running one of Seagates Perpindicular Hard Drives and it seems to be doing quite well. Quiet, good seek times. Not really sure on life expectancy but with a 5 year warranty i'm not as concerned.

[urgannagru]

from what i have read about the technology perpendicular is supposed to be even more reliable than the previous method

though honestly, with seagate, let alone their 5 year warranty, im not worried

i personally just got one of those sata2 16mb 320gb drives and found out it wasnt compatible with my controller on my old socket a sata mobo, so you might want to make sure first

[Aglar]

Just bought one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148140

It was $94.99 when I ordered it, though. Eventually I'd like to build a RAID 5 NAS with a bunch of those, so getting this drive is kind of like the trial run. Depends when I build it though, by then there'll probably be a better cost/gigabyte drive out there.

[Blazing Bolt]

I went ahead and ordered the 250 gig version of that