Seagate påstår at de har fundet et vidundermiddel hvad angår harddiske. De vil bruge lasere og andre materialer til at opnå en data densitet ud over nutidens forstand.
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Uses lasers to momentarily heat the disk surface and allow the drive heads to write information. When the surface of the drive cools, the bits settle into a more stable state for longer-term reliability. The technology allows a smaller number of grains to be used for each bit of data, taking advantage of high-stability magnetic compounds such as iron platinum ."
Hvordan det hænger sammen med drevets hastighed og stabilitet melder nyheden desværre intet om, man kunne jo ellers godt forestille sig at fejlprocenten ville blive skudt i vejret.
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Seagate reckons that it can get 50GB of data in a square inch of physical space ." Kan man sige mere end wow ?
Link: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01/03/seagate_says_300tb_drives_by_2010/