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The Future of Hard Drives: Ballistic Magnetoresist

Posted by chrisd on from the flying-magnets dept.

Hirsto writes "Found this interesting story about breakthrough research on next generation drives. Here is a link to the NSF press release on this technology which supposedly enables storage densities of greater than 1 terabit per square inch. Devices might be on the market in 7 years, give or take."

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  1. 'Might' Be? by MaestroSartori · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, they might be on the market in seven years. So might cold fusion and room-temperature superconductors.

    And cloaking devices.

    And an honest politician...

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    1. Re:'Might' Be? by kryliss · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you might be pushing it with the honest politician. Cold fusion, room temperature superconductors and cloaking devices I can believe. Hell I'd believe that aliens have landed before I believe that there is an honest politician.

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  2. In other news by djupedal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Terabiit BM announced their latest offering in the 'Eye of the Needle' premium hard drive series, the LOC Plus, which uses the planetary orbit measurement of data storage and promises to hold in excess of 10X12> LOCs. The new unit goes on sale just in time for this season's channel fest on DynSat XIV.

  3. 1 Terabyte/1sq inch? by xianzombie · · Score: 2, Funny

    1x10^15x5.25= a lot of porn in the space of a single drive bay!!!

  4. Balistic Magno Terrorists?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds really dangerous! I'm calling Ashcroft now!

  5. Looks like by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chopra said the ballistic electrons lead to clearer binary signals -- at least in part. However, "we don't fully understand how the signal is enhanced to such very large degrees," he said. "The existing theories don't yet explain it. There are some things here no one quite understands. That means there's a lot of science to be discovered yet."
    Look like the Continuum are winding the IBM engineers up this week.

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  6. slashdot headlines by X_Caffeine · · Score: 4, Funny
    According to the past couple months of Slashdot headlines, the hard drive of tomorrow will use microscopic whiskers, be solid state, use nickel whisker-like filaments (oh wait, this is another repeat post!), be the size of a credit card, cost less than 1$/gig, run at 15000 RPM, use state of the art IBM pixie dust, support bluetooth, might even be Serial-ATA (...nah), and still be full of all the data you forgot to erase.

    Enough "hard drive of tomorrow" articles, already.

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  7. 7 years?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    I don't know if I can wait that long. I was hoping it would be more like 5-10 years. ;)

  8. It will never get here by AppyPappy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Devices might be on the market in 7 years, give or take."


    That's forever!
    7 years is 49 years in computer years. Seven years ago, I was running Windows 3.1 on a 486 in my office. I'll either be pushing up the daisies or in a zoo with the placard "Last Remaining COBOL Programmer" over my cage.

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  9. Welcome to my life by HiQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hard Drives: Ballistic
    whenever I go out to buy new hardware, my wife goes ballistic. Does this count too?

  10. sensitive by derhurz · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...at room temperature can detect a 100,000 percent change in voltage...

    Big deal. I detected a similar change in voltage in my body, last time I was messing with the wiring in my flat.

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