I promise. This one is just too good (painful?) not to share. The geekier among us may or may not have heard of a new technology in disk drives, called perpendicular storage. For the uninitiated, it’s a new way of designing hard drive platters that manages to squeeze even more data on to the platter(s) while reducing the potential of data loss due to the superparamagnetic effect (if the bits are positioned too close together, the charge from a bit could “flip” the charge on a neighboring bit).

Need a little more background? OK good, because that’s the point of this post. For some strange reason Hitachi actually paid someone to produce a little musical Flash number loosely based on the classic Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just a Bill” cartoon. While I will warn you that it might make you cry, at least you’ll have a better understanding about where the disk drive industry is headed. (Via)