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Next Wave Of Hard Drive Tech: Perpendicular Recording
angrytuna writes "New serial technologies are set to replace standard SCSI and ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) interfaces over the next two years, even as hard-disk drive manufacturers prepare for an entirely new form of bit storage. Perpendicular recording will replace longitudinal recording in storage devices, placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface, thus dramatically increasing the possible storage density."
Okay for the last 20 years they've been working on this. WHY are they not looking into solid state storage? There are plenty of companies within 2 years will have drives that will blow away current drives in speed and capacity. One such company is using nanotech to offer 1 terabit per cm2. And it'll run at 10x the speed of current memory.
I cant help to see how this is not wasted time trying to improve the platter drives in favor of pushing out solid state storage faster. The advantages alone overrule more development on platter systems. Imagine instead of 100mbps of bandwidth on the hard drive you would be getting 10gbps of throughtput, no moving parts and much less heat and a longer MTBF time along with size alone this would blow away the server markets..
Who would care about the 16Gig memory limit when you have a solid state hard drive that ran faster than the memory array? Then you can just modify the software to use the Solid State Array (Think I'm going to patent this!hehe) SSA drive as memory and storage thus DB servers would have serious improvements compared to platter systems.
Oh! Haha! A PENIS joke! That was funny!
Seriously, though: where did all you sickos come from?
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