The Future of Hard Drives: Ballistic Magnetoresist

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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slashdot headlines

[X_Caffeine]

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.

It will never get here

[AppyPappy]

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.

sensitive

[derhurz]

...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.