The Future of Hard Drives: Ballistic Magnetoresist

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The Future of Hard Drives: Ballistic Magnetoresist

Posted by chrisd on Thursday February 20, 2003 @12:38AM 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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fp faggot by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 00:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first post.. biatch
moron getting yOUR caches worth by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 00:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Path Cleared for IPO Litigation
Investors who say they were fooled by scheming underwriters into buying vastly overinflated tech and Internet stocks can proceed with their fraud claims, a judge rules.
Ontopic, Offtopic, now which is it? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 00:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Isn't this ironic? A post by Ontopic moderidioted as Offtopic...
Stop The QWERTY curse by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 00:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Stop The QWERTY curse which is propagating from the age of the typewriters.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Re:1 Terabyte/1sq inch? by oliverthered · 2003-02-20 00:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You've got 5 1/4 inches, how much can I hold on my 8 inch floppy?

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thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Well, it isn't exactly a dupe, but... by Ari+Rahikkala · 2003-02-20 00:52 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Nickel Sensors Could Raise Hard Disk Capacity.
At least we got a new link.
So... by jj_johny · 2003-02-20 00:59 · Score: 1, Offtopic

all that stuff I see on Alias is real then! Next thing ya know that stuff on Star Trek is real too and they just been keeping it from us. What I really want is for all that Batman stuff to be real - I could really use a big car like batman to get through all this snow around my house.
1. Re:So... by Sir+Tristam · 2003-02-20 01:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I could really use a big car like batman to get through all this snow around my house.
  The right vehicle already exists. The best thing to get you through all that snow is an Avalanche. (You know, sometimes you just have to...)
  Chris
FIRST REPLY TO FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-20 01:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

ya suxors!
Who was Joseph Claude Appleby ? by Ontopic · 2003-02-20 01:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Does anybody know? And is he related to Tom Cruise?
ALRIGHT PULL OVER, DIPSHIT!! by FAILING+POLICE!! · 2003-02-20 02:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You have been observed committing posting violation:

Code 142.16b: Failing to succeed in posting a first post.
This is just a warning.

In the future, perhaps you will not be such a lazy, careless bore, and a failure. You are a failure, and you're probably afraid of women, too.