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 | | The result is “flipped bits” – bits whose magnetic north and south poles suddenly and spontaneously reverse – that corrupt data, rendering it and the storage device unreliable and thus unusable. |
 | | Longitudinal recording, as its name indicates, aligns the data bits horizontally, parallel to the surface of the disk. |
 | | In contrast, perpendicular recording aligns the bits vertically, perpendicular to the disk, which allows additional room on a disk to pack more data, thus, enabling higher recording densities. |
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