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What Happened To The Small Form Terrabyte HDs?

Posted by Cliff on from the time-keeps-on-slippin-slippin-slippin-into-the-future dept.

Bahumat asks: "I remember hearing about a year back about credit-card size solid-state hard drives that were to revolutionize the storage industry, with the capacity for 2300 gigabytes stored, and the cost of manufacture to be less than $50. The old news release [ C : dated 8/99] is posted here. Does anybody know of any updates or press releases about this technology?"

4 comments

  1. Maybe by SpiceWare · · Score: 1

    They decided to not tempt Microsoft with the challenge of releasing Windows ME ver 2.0 on 5 DVDs, all of which are required :-)

    1. Re:Maybe by Andrew+Vieyra · · Score: 1

      Heh I recieved some WinME cd's with developer code and they were 4 cd's packed to 800meg each

  2. Correct second patent by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 1

    Oops. Linked the second patent incorrectly.

    Given the first one is dated around the time of the inital annoucement and the second applied for 3/7/00, that would seem to be the one referred to in the update (and give it some dating).

  3. Meager news & contact info. by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 3
    There's a small update from their venture capital firm:


    Keele High Density Computer Memory: we have now started licensing negotiations with some of the world's largest computer companies - so far it all looks promising, but we have many important barriers to get over - at any one of these the project could fall-apart - but so-far-so-good! Additional patents are being filed now which moves the maximum capacity at credit card size to 10.8 TB


    No date by this blurb but the overall page was last updated 4/7/00, and the blurb above it references July 13... so probably posted sometime early this year.

    IBM's patent database shows they have filed for an obtained 2 patents in Great Britain but the only data online is they are both for "High Density Storage Systems" ($3 each for copies)

    There's also contact info. so you could try to get some news straight from the source.