Azrael Strife Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 I found this article a most interesting read. Physicists in Netherlands and Japan are the first to flip the value of a magnetic memory bit by firing a very short pulse of circularly-polarized laser light at it. Unlike other magneto-optic data storage systems, no external magnetic field was required to flip the bit, which meant that its value could be changed about 50 thousand times faster than the fastest conventional memory. The result could lead to the development of low-cost and ultrafast all-optical magnetic hard disk drives (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 047601 ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Ultra fast and low cost... This is something never experienced in the world of computers so far. And I doubt it ever will be. Perhaps low cost for manufacturing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 That's true. If it gets into the public market then they'll sell it at novelty prices meaning that your standard hard drives will be much cheaper even if they're more expensive to produce. Still, I'm glad progress is still being made for better, faster and more reliable storage systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Hope they figure it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Sounds promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Yeah, it really does. No moving parts=less chances for a breakdown. And more shock resistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 But it sounds like it will take 2 years to reach where we are now in terms of storage volume on normal USB flash drives. I would have thought that at this rate they're never going to catch up, especially with this coming out: https://ohgizmo.com/2005/11/23/maxell-relea...storage-medium/ 120 megaBYTES a second transfer? That's fast. All they've got to do is make the system shock-resistant from what I read in an article earlier last year and you'll get up to 1.6 terabytes per disc with bigger capacities on the horizon. Make the box smaller, stick it inside your PC and you've got an alternative to hard drives This is also why HD-DVD and Blu Ray never interested me. Even the "winner" - Blu Ray - will be swept aside in a year or two by this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 https://ohgizmo.com/2005/11/23/maxell-relea...storage-medium/ 120 megaBYTES a second transfer?:faints: What the... Never heard about this one before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Heard about that a few years back. Hang on, the article date is a few years ago... I wonder what the development status is at now. Still, this bit seems to be a little misleading: ... of up to 1.6TB (that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 That's still more than I'd know what to do with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Bah, you know as well as I do that data expands to fill the space available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 That's still more than I'd know what to do with Nothing a good new version of Microsoft Windows wouldn't take care of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Nothing a good new version of Microsoft Windows wouldn't take care of. Good one. If it is a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 I prefer to think of it as a sad reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Meh, Vista was only about 3 gig or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 That's the size of my XP install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 I was mostly aiming at the fact that at the rate MS continues to vomit bloated software, future versions of all their programs will be even more huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Internet Eploder 8 will probably be a gig on it's own On a slightly different topic - I can't wait til IE8 comes out and I can finally think about not bothering to make websites work in crappy IE6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 There's a new IE coming? Hadn't heard about it. What, are they finally going to adopt internet standards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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