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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. Truly insightful by NeMon'ess · · Score: 0, Troll

    Storage space just keeps increasing.

    shut up

  2. Drive space increasing like M$ OSes by TullyTyro · · Score: 0, Troll

    Drive space is increasing at a rate that is directly proportional to the bloated size of Mircosoft Operating Systems.

    1991 - DOS 6.22 about 5MB for the OS on a 40MB HDD
    1996 - Win95 about 300MB for the OS on a 1.7GB HDD
    2002 - WinXPPro about 2.5GB for the OS on a 40GB HDD.
    2007 - LonghornSP4 about 20GIG!? for the OS on maybe 400GB drives?

    How far out am I? Probably heaps but you get the idea.