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IBM's "Pixie Dust" Drives Improved

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tiny-storage dept.

jeffroe writes "Infoworld has an article stating that IBM has enhanced it's 'Pixie Dust' technology yet again. The areal density has improved to 70gb per square inch! Apparently that means 80gb drives for laptops." IBM's also predicted hard drives to have 100gb per square inch by 2003. Storage space just keeps increasing.

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  1. How Much? by pbinmt · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, how much porn do you need to cary on a business trip anyway?

  2. If these laptops are at college... by grungebox · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...then the extra space is being used for three things (all during class):
    1)pr0n
    2)AIM
    3)Anime

    The score is now IBM: 1, Education: 0 (unless you're in a class about sending anime porn to your friends via IM)

  3. Re:p0rn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You crazy purist. Geek world would collapse without porn. Who would take care of all the technical stuff if there were millions of horny geeks just running around making suggestion to marketing babes and ending up in jail for sexual harrasement.

  4. Re:p0rn by yobbo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Video editing, for one.

    Or, in your terms, "making pr0n" .

  5. Simple Sandwich by mdechene · · Score: 5, Funny

    It involves sandwiching a three-atom-thick layer of the precious metal ruthenium between two magnetic layers. That seemingly simple step allowed researchers to increase the areal storage density.

    I'm pretty sure that making a 3 atom sandwich doesn't seem simple to me.

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    1. Re:Simple Sandwich by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm pretty sure that making a 3 atom sandwich doesn't seem simple to me.

      You aren't kidding. And the number it would take to satisfy my hunger would take several lifetimes just to count.

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  6. Library of Congress by CatWrangler · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many of these laptops will fit inside of the Library of Congress? Maybe I asked the question backwards.

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  7. Re:Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How else am I going to get the internet on my computer.. geezz

  8. This would be exciting news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... if it wasn't for IBM's -appalling- track record in this sector (haha, sector, get it?)

    I wouldn't -touch- another IBM drive with a 50ft. pole, even if there were flaming naked ninja-women threatening to cut my head off if I didn't.

  9. Re:IBM seems to have a good track record by howlingmoki · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm plenty happy with the one IBM hard drive I own. All 256megs of it is still spinning happily away in the BBS-turned-router in the closet, not a bad sector to date and it's been running almost constantly for nine years. I wish the Maxtor (1GB) drive in that machine was 1/10 as reliable as that IBM drive...

    sometimes smaller is better?

  10. Re:Who cares by Metrol · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...you'd see that IBM is also introducing the first 7200 RPM drives for laptops.

    Which has the additional benefit of acting as an in-flight gyroscope. Never have an unlevel lap again!

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  11. Re:I have an entire TERABYTE! by jonbrewer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have 140GB of OGGs and MP3s, 500GB of DivXs and VCDs (including porn), 100GB of installed games, 6 different OSes, and all kinds of other crap.

    Yes, but do you have a life?