Disk Drives Face Challenge From Chips

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 11, 2006 @04:36AM from the the-growth-of-hard-storage dept.

WSJdpatton writes "Researchers are reporting significant progress in perfecting a different way to store data in semiconductors, which could replace one widely used type of memory chip and possibly become a credible competitor to disk drives. The researchers, in a paper being delivered at a technical conference in San Francisco, say they used a novel combination of materials to create prototype phase-change components that are more than 500 times as fast as flash chips, while requiring less than half of the electrical power to record data."

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Rewrite cycles? by wiredog · 2006-12-11 05:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

One of the big failings of flash memory is the limited number of rewrite cycles. HDs can be rewritten many times without going bad. How many rewrite cycles will this have?

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