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Phase Change Memory vs. Storage As We Know It

Posted by timothy on from the change-is-constant-and-welcome-to-2010 dept.

storagedude writes "Access to data isn't keeping pace with advances in CPU and memory, creating an I/O bottleneck that threatens to make data storage irrelevant. The author sees phase change memory as a technology that could unseat storage networks. From the article: 'While years away, PCM has the potential to move data storage and storage networks from the center of data centers to the periphery. I/O would only have to be conducted at the start and end of the day, with data parked in memory while applications are running. In short, disk becomes the new tape."

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  1. Slashdot is computer science by Singularity42 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought most of slashdot is computer-science only. What is the big-Oh notation of PCM? Most of slashdot are not engineers--they are computer scientists. Thus, they essentially are wannabee mathematicians.

  2. Re:CD-R? by jameskojiro · · Score: 0, Troll

    MS would find a way to Bloat it all up, trust me.

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