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Shaking Hard Drives Instead of Spinning?
Twyko64 writes "A UK startup called Dataslide aims to develop 'hard drives' made of oscillating sheets of LCD-screen-like material with piezo-electronic actuators and many, many read:write heads. A 'hard drive' could be the same size and shape as an LCD screen. I wrote a this piece on Techworld about it."
Cue jokes about "shaken, not stirred..."
Man, a 20" hard drive.
That's not progress.
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Which one? The one on my watch, the one on my cell phone, the one on my calculator, or the one on my laptop?
I hate grammar Nazi's.
does it work with Rez?
I wrote a this piece on Techworld about it.
That really makes me want to go read the article.
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I could open a cheap hotel/data center with vibrating magic finger beds/harddrives! $$$$
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I can't wait to line my wall with those things, and call it a RAID!!! WOOT
So instead of getting bad sectors i'll be getting burnt pixels.... Great
Release a rumour, have some 3rd party effect, then fade away.
Just take it from infineon, SCO and now kodak, it works!
Anyone see a patent for this anywhere? Sounds really stupid to me, and I keep thinking of any obscure religion that has April 1st today (because of diff. calendars etc.)
Well I can imagien it will take as long as it has taken platter technology to give us these capacities and speeds right? So maybe in 10-15 years we will use these vibro-storage devices.
I can see a porn tie in somewhere here... just not sure where...
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A 'hard drive' could be the same size and shape as an LCD screen.
I predict that within 100 years, hard drives will have twice the storage capacity, be ten thousand times larger, and be so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
Yes, flash has been in-use for days now.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Obviously your hearing isn't too good. I can hear all those extra electrons moving through those extra cables if I don't wear my tin foil earplugs.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Am I the only one who thought of the Dilbert where he (Dilbert) was running Voice Recognition software and Wally was saying how it would be a shame if the software decided to "CLOSE ALL WINDOWS" and "REBOOT," or something of the like.
Now, Dilbert might not even have to be running Voice Recognition software for Wally to perform...
The last thing anybody wants here is an earthquake rewriting all of their data.
I can't wait to get one of these shaking, and therefore vibrating, babies in my laptop! Just make sure the shaking is perpendicular to the keyboard ;)
I guess that dibert comic about the PHB shaking his "laptop" because it was hung will come true, though instead of rebooting the laptop it'll just format the harddrive...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Can't we just get someone to finish dev on those little plastic cards they used on Star Trek? Those things held shitobits of data...holograms too!
...the Hard Drives shake You!! ...Zeesh must be a Monday
Yes... I'm imagining all the bits will wind up dancing around on the surface, like those little football players on those old vibrating football games.
Then again, if that were really an issue, we'd also be dealing with hard drives throwing all their data off the edges of the platters.
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