Terrabit Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive

BitGuy writes: "Physics News Update reports that current GMR (giant magnetoresistance) harddisk technology will not achieve terrabit-per-square-inch densities. Experiments with EMR (extra-ordinary magnetoresistive), which exceeds 100Gb/in^2 have been successful in the lab. There is even a diagram of the read head if you're interested."

Comments

Terrabit???

[bioart]

Hmm... I wonder how they got dirt and the like to such high density... did they mean Terabit?

Re:Terrabit???

[I Am Cromulus]

Poor spelling angers Cromulus.

hm....

[elmegil]

Terrabit....is that what I'm going to feel when I get to play Doom III?

OH, you maybe meant "Terabit". As in "a trillion bits". This has been your obligatory spelling flame.

Who makes up these names?

[Anomolous Cow Herd]

... current GMR (giant magnetoresistance) harddisk technology will not achieve terrabit-per-square-inch densities. Experiments with EMR (extra-ordinary magnetoresistive)...

I'm not buying another one until it comes with Super Duper Magnetoresistance.

Re:Who makes up these names?

[Xenographic]

At least it wasn't Extra-sensory Resistance (ESR) ... Though the thought of a psychic HD is a little disturbing... OTOH, it could probably do cacheing a lot better & maybe even improve download times by knowing what you wanted in advance... :]

Re:Who makes up these names?

[philovivero]

Yeh! Who makes up these names? I mean seriously?

TERRAbit? What next? Venutiabit? Martiabit? Jupitabit?

After GMR and EMR, what's next?

[Speare]

GMR (giant magnetoresistance) harddisk technology will not achieve terrabit-per-square-inch densities. Experiments with EMR (extra-ordinary magnetoresistive), which exceeds 100Gb/in^2 have been successful in the lab.

After that, comes IMR (improbable magnetoresistive) where the Library of Congress fits in a square inch.

Finally, new advancements in subatomic physics leads to LMR (ludicrous magnetoresistive), giving more bits of storage than there are atoms on the platter. The "flavor" and "color" of each quark are directly manipulated and sampled by the drive head.

Re:After GMR and EMR, what's next?

[Erris]

Finally, new advancements in subatomic physics leads to LMR (ludicrous magnetoresistive), giving more bits of storage than there are atoms on the platter. The "flavor" and "color" of each quark are directly manipulated and sampled by the drive head.

I'm afraid you jumped directly to plaid.

It's 6.4516 square-centimeters

[jb_nizet]

Common, when will you FINALLY adopt standards?
When you finally do, I'll go drink a pint of beer and a eat a pound of cheese at the pub, two yards from here ;-)

JB

Re:It's 6.4516 square-centimeters

[distributed.karma]

Common, when do you adopt proper spelling of "come on"?

Besides, the USA is progressing towards the metric system, inch by inch, so not to worry.

New Slashdot poll

[Aceticon]

I sugest a poll for the name of the mangnetoresistance effect that will come after giant magnetoresistance and extra-ordinary magnetoresistance:

1. Even-more-extra-ordinary magnetoresistance
2. Unbelievable magnetoresistance
3. Bloody-incredible magnetoresistance
4. All-powerfull magnetoresistance
5. Cowboy Neal

I don't get it either!

[newerbob]

Why not have "news" stories that say "10 GHz processors not here yet" or "2048 x 1460 LCD displays not yet ready?"

And I got all excited when I saw that headline! "Finally," I thought, "now there'll be space to store all my pr0n!"

Giant MR? Extraordinary MR?

[Caraig]

I'm waiting for LUDICROUS MR!

Pass me those plaid HDD lights for my case....