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Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM

Posted by timothy on from the not-your-kommandant's-wire-recorder dept.

neutron_p writes "A former Soviet Union military development finds its use in modern technology and still remains fascinating." The development comes in the form of a flexible microwire, 10 micrometers thick and 10cm long, with a metal body and a glass coating, which the linked article says "can store 10 Gigabytes of information. It is possible thanks to their magnetic properties. Anyway, it's not that easy. Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information."

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  1. Would you trust someone who... by PornMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    thinks that CDs use magnetism to report on new tech?

    "The microwires become diminutive substitutes for the CD-ROM, given that information can be stored magnetically on them, as with CDs."

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  2. In other words by b1t+r0t · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The development comes in the form of a flexible microwire, 10 micrometers thick and 10cm long

    There's already a name for this. It's called tape.

    (Tape storage started with metal-wire recorders, but esentially they're the same idea, only it's harder to strangle someone with magtape.)

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  3. Re:Bit vs buye by LurkerXXX · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What about the heading for the paragraph?

    10 Gigabytes in 10 cm long

    followed later by:

    The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other.

    Pardon my math, but isn't 10 million bytes 10 Megabytes, not Gigabytes? Isn't the articles claim of data density off a thousand fold?