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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. Backup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cool! Wake me up when they come out with 100GB backup drives.

    Looks like the only hard drive backup solution these days is another hard drive.

    1. Re:Backup by coryboehne · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Of course the backup tech is actually getting more expensive than the hard drives are.... Consider trying to backup an 80 gig HDD onto 250meg zip disks...... that would really suck, or even onto 650-700 MB CD-Roms, that would still take 115 disks... at a cost of 50c each that's still 50 bucks, and when you consider the weeks time needed to make the back up... you see my point, the hard drives are cheaper backup storage than most other solutions.... Maybe this is a good thing though, consider, 1 small hard drive for backups, or,,,, a library of other media... I'll take the hard drive please.......