Okay, I'm going out on a limb here because the FT's archive search is down at the moment, but I remember reading an article in the FT about a breakthrough in memory technology made by some guy in Scotland (I think.)
Anyway, it said that he'd managed to produce a memory design and fabrication technique that would allow about 18Tb of solid state memory onto the area the size of a credit card. It would be ready for release in 2 or 3 years and would cost about £50 per Tb. The access speed was 100Mb/sec.
I read this in January and when I looked at the web site it all seemed to checkout.
If I can find the article again it looks like solid state hard drives are a bit closer than you thought!.
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Okay, I'm going out on a limb here because the FT's archive search is down at the moment, but I remember reading an article in the FT about a breakthrough in memory technology made by some guy in Scotland (I think.) Anyway, it said that he'd managed to produce a memory design and fabrication technique that would allow about 18Tb of solid state memory onto the area the size of a credit card. It would be ready for release in 2 or 3 years and would cost about £50 per Tb. The access speed was 100Mb/sec. I read this in January and when I looked at the web site it all seemed to checkout. If I can find the article again it looks like solid state hard drives are a bit closer than you thought!.