Whyzman
02-26-2007, 08:27 PM
Hard Drives with Frickin' Laser Beams
7:11 PM, January 3, 2007
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It won't be until at least 2012, but laser-based hard drives are coming my friends. Seagate is leading the charge, as Wired News reports in this story.
There's a lot of techno-babble in Rob Beschizza's story, but the basic theme is that lasers are not only cool, but they will allow companies to stuff a massive amount of storage space in tiny drives. How much space, exactly?:
Seagate plans to hit the market with twin technologies that could fly far beyond [current storage peaks], ultimately offering as much as 50 terabits per square inch. On a standard 3.5-inch drive, that's equivalent to 300 terabits of information, enough to hold the uncompressed contents of the Library of Congress.
Storage capacities of this magnitude are certainly welcome, as my plain old 100 GB laptop drive is already full of music, videos, and photos. With high-definition movie downloads and other storage-hungry entertainment options on the verge of going mainstream, super-capacity drives will quickly become a necessity in the digital homes of the (near) future.
~Chris B., Amazon Current
7:11 PM, January 3, 2007
This is a post from Amazon Current.
Would you like to continue receiving these posts?
It won't be until at least 2012, but laser-based hard drives are coming my friends. Seagate is leading the charge, as Wired News reports in this story.
There's a lot of techno-babble in Rob Beschizza's story, but the basic theme is that lasers are not only cool, but they will allow companies to stuff a massive amount of storage space in tiny drives. How much space, exactly?:
Seagate plans to hit the market with twin technologies that could fly far beyond [current storage peaks], ultimately offering as much as 50 terabits per square inch. On a standard 3.5-inch drive, that's equivalent to 300 terabits of information, enough to hold the uncompressed contents of the Library of Congress.
Storage capacities of this magnitude are certainly welcome, as my plain old 100 GB laptop drive is already full of music, videos, and photos. With high-definition movie downloads and other storage-hungry entertainment options on the verge of going mainstream, super-capacity drives will quickly become a necessity in the digital homes of the (near) future.
~Chris B., Amazon Current