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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. Finally... by Quaoar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ample gigabytes that I can store up my nose.

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  2. ObMonty Python by sconeu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And now, a man with a hard drive up his nose!

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  3. Re:p0rn by woogieoogieboogie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Porn is pretty disgusting if you ask me.

    what is disgusting abotu pr0n?

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  4. Imagine? by joejoejoejoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can you imagine a beowolf cluster (tm) running with these?

    You'd need N+N just to keep up with the MTBF rates and down time to swap the HDD's.

    Bwahahaha! I did it! my first Imagine-a-beowolf-cluster (tm) post!

    Heh, I'd be playing DoD now, but my cable modem sucks!

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  5. Use correct prefixes, PLEASE! by tomas.bjornerback · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm getting really tired of people not using the correct prefixes, and even more on computer-savvy people not understanding the difference between bit and byte. Learn this list by heart or at least between 10^9 and 10^-9:

    b = bit
    B = byte

    E = exa = 10^18
    P = peta = 10^15
    T = tera = 10^12
    G = giga = 10^9
    M = mega = 10^6
    k = kilo = 10^3
    h = hekto = 10^2
    D = deka = 10^1
    d = deci = 10^-1
    c = centi = 10^-2
    m = milli = 10^-3
    u = micro = 10^-6
    n = nano = 10^-9
    p = pico = 10^-12
    f = femto = 10^-15
    a = atto = 10^-18

    Those writing "mb" for megabyte, are actually writing "milli-bit". How do I split a single bit into one thousand pieces? Is that what micro processors is all about? ;)

    To avoid any discussion between k=1000 and k=1024, please turn to www.iec.org and read about binary prefixes (kibi-, mebi- et.c.).

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