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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. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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