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Toshiba Claims Bit-Patterned Drive Breakthrough
CWmike writes "Toshiba will detail a breakthrough in data storage later Wednesday that it says paves the way for hard drives with vastly higher capacity than today, reports Martyn WIlliams. The breakthrough has been made in the research of bit-patterned media, a magnetic storage technology that is being developed for future hard disk drives. Bit-patterned media breaks up the recording surface into numerous magnetic bits, each consisting of a few magnetic grains. Under a microscope, the magnetic bits look like thousands of tiny spheres crammed next to each another. Data is stored on these magnetic bits: One magnetic bit can hold one bit of data. Prototypes of the media have been made before but Toshiba says its engineers have, for the first time, succeeded in producing a media sample in which the magnetic bits are organized into a pattern of rows."
Yeah, but there will be a million regular HDDs for sale that are mislabeled as ADHDs...
Today is red jello day - all workers must eat all of their red jello. Failure to comply will result in five demerits.
Obsolete 2TB spinning platter device = $99.99
New hotness 640GB flash device = $14,500.00
Oh, well then... There's nothing really stopping me from being the next Governor of California. Jump on the bandwagon for my inevitable victory!
His last post ended with:
I've had it. I'm switching all my machines to Linux today.
See ya'll in 24 hours.
That was May 11th..... I guess the transition didn't go so well.
"Lame" - Galaxar