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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. Well, it isn't exactly a dupe, but... by Ari+Rahikkala · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Nickel Sensors Could Raise Hard Disk Capacity.

    At least we got a new link.

  2. So... by jj_johny · · 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.