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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. Mechanical drives vs. solid state storage by chancegray · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Shouldn't we be moving over to some time of solid state storage devices soon? It seems like it would be a more reliable solution than all the moving parts in hard drives. Does anyone have some links on this?

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  2. 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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