Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Truly Teeny Tiny Hard Disks To Turn up
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "NEWS" @ 01:00 AM
The Inquirer has a short story up which says that Seagate “is set to present research findings this week which mean storage capacities of 50 terabits a square inch are within the grasp of technologists. It will present its findings on March 25th at the American Physical Society conference based on R&D using heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). That technique means that over 3.5 million high res photographs, 2,800 audio CDs, 1600 hours of TV programmes or the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress can sit on 30 millimetres disks.” 8O OK, that’s small. I always wanted to store a few dozen copies of the US Library of Congress in a match box anyway. :lol:
The headline claim is that entire libraries will fit in your pocket, which is an interesting image. I mean, how do they get the shelves that small anyway and what happens to the librarians? :wink: It’s certainly good to see the inexorable trend for smaller mass storage continue. I wonder who will be the fist to release a Pocket PC with some *real* storage capacity in it? :?:
The headline claim is that entire libraries will fit in your pocket, which is an interesting image. I mean, how do they get the shelves that small anyway and what happens to the librarians? :wink: It’s certainly good to see the inexorable trend for smaller mass storage continue. I wonder who will be the fist to release a Pocket PC with some *real* storage capacity in it? :?:
