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Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again
Nrbelex writes "Stuart S. P. Parkin, an I.B.M. research fellow largely unknown outside a small fraternity of physicists, thinks he is poised to bring about a breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored on a chip or a hard drive by a factor of a hundred. This is the man who pioneered exploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 90s, causing disk storage to jump ahead of the Moore's Law curve. If he proves successful in developing 'racetrack memory,' he will create a universal computer memory, one that can potentially replace DRAM and flash memory chips, and make a 'disk drive on a chip' possible. It could begin to replace flash memory in three to five years, scientists say."
Enough space for all the porn in the internet... at least for now.
If it means my computer gets to look like that thing from TFA, then I'm SO in!
Imagine, 10,000GB of RAM.
I have that in my laptop. Unfortunately I only have a 2 gig harddrive but I do have 56k on my video card.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Sure, until somebody thinks to form the PIAA, then itll be $3 per titty, and the phrase 'money shot' will take on a whole new meaning.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Five years! It's always Five Years!
By 2012 I expect to have, this super memory technology, solar cells with efficiency above 70% for pennies per watt, flying cars, paper thin televisions the size of my wall, fuel cell powered hybrid cars, batteries replaced by power cells that store more power, cost less, are infinitely rechargeable, and charge/discharge like capacitors -- plus several other things from the last few months of Slashdot.
Also the Mayan calendar will have expired, and the entire West Coast in to the Sierra Nevada mountains will be flooded, so I don't know how useful this all will be to me.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Yeah, right.
Exactly. That assembly line shit was just completely out there. Several people each building a car is much better than one car being made by several people.
Now comes the MPAA and RIAA asking for damages and injunctive relief.
This speed and storage capacity and can only be used for downloading and pirating illegal copies of movies and music.
Therefore this must not be permitted to happen.
Fight Spammers!
kind of hard to lug to the LAN party tho
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this 50TB hard drive is too small to contain.
USB 2.0 has a maximum transfer rate of 480Mbps.
Which is 60MB/s.
5TB is 5120MB.
5120 / 60 = 85.333 seconds.
Your intuitive understanding of the speed of USB is wrong because the thumb drives you have used are most likely USB 1.1, and they're most likely flash based.
How we know is more important than what we know.
You know, I always thought Godwin's Law was a little tongue-in-cheek until today.
Nuclear submarines don't run on batteries.
Craniophallic, is that like fucked in the head??
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