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 6th August 2007, 6:55am
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 Maverick Hunter  Group: Site Staff Posts: 802 Joined: November 2004 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 101  |
I found this article a most interesting read.
 QUOTE 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 ).
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6th August 2007, 12:50pm
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 I've got my eye on you! Group: Site Staff Posts: 511 Joined: November 2002 From: Slovenia Member No.: 1,078 |
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.
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6th August 2007, 1:51pm
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 Lieutenant Group: Site Staff Posts: 670 Joined: February 2004 Member No.: 2,067 |
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.
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6th August 2007, 5:14pm
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 Colonel Group: Admin Posts: 5,931 Joined: March 2003 From: Sweden Member No.: 1,057 |
Hope they figure it out
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21st March 2008, 2:56pm
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Colonel Group: Admin Posts: 5,931 Joined: March 2003 From: Sweden Member No.: 1,057 |
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25th March 2008, 7:35am
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I've got my eye on you! Group: Site Staff Posts: 511 Joined: November 2002 From: Slovenia Member No.: 1,078 |
Yeah, it really does. No moving parts=less chances for a breakdown. And more shock resistance.
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25th March 2008, 7:57am
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 3,039 Joined: May 2002 From: Cheshire, England Member No.: 1 |
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: http://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. --------------------   |
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25th March 2008, 9:27am
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I've got my eye on you! Group: Site Staff Posts: 511 Joined: November 2002 From: Slovenia Member No.: 1,078 |
QUOTE (Pete @ 25th March 2008, 7:57am)  :faints: What the... Never heard about this one before. |
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26th March 2008, 12:58am
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 The Smily Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2,990 Joined: September 2002 From: Tasmania (AU) Member No.: 152 |
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: QUOTE ... of up to 1.6TB (that’s a “t”, as in 1,600 Gb)... If 1tb = 1000gb, then if you do the maths to see what a file system will report it as you really get just 1.45tb. -------------------- |
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26th March 2008, 7:35am
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 3,039 Joined: May 2002 From: Cheshire, England Member No.: 1 |
That's still more than I'd know what to do with
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26th March 2008, 8:23am
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The Smily Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2,990 Joined: September 2002 From: Tasmania (AU) Member No.: 152 |
Bah, you know as well as I do that data expands to fill the space available.
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26th March 2008, 12:08pm
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Maverick Hunter Group: Site Staff Posts: 802 Joined: November 2004 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 101 |
QUOTE (Pete @ 26th March 2008, 7:35am) 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. -------------------- |
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26th March 2008, 2:10pm
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I've got my eye on you! Group: Site Staff Posts: 511 Joined: November 2002 From: Slovenia Member No.: 1,078 |
QUOTE (Azrael Strife @ 26th March 2008, 12:08pm) Nothing a good new version of Microsoft Windows wouldn't take care of.  Good one. If it is a joke. 
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26th March 2008, 6:24pm
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Maverick Hunter Group: Site Staff Posts: 802 Joined: November 2004 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 101 |
I prefer to think of it as a sad reality.
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26th March 2008, 6:36pm
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 3,039 Joined: May 2002 From: Cheshire, England Member No.: 1 |
Meh, Vista was only about 3 gig or something
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27th March 2008, 12:22am
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The Smily Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2,990 Joined: September 2002 From: Tasmania (AU) Member No.: 152 |
That's the size of my XP install.
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27th March 2008, 3:57am
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Maverick Hunter Group: Site Staff Posts: 802 Joined: November 2004 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 101 |
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.
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27th March 2008, 8:01am
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 3,039 Joined: May 2002 From: Cheshire, England Member No.: 1 |
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! -------------------- |
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27th March 2008, 4:31pm
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Maverick Hunter Group: Site Staff Posts: 802 Joined: November 2004 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 101 |
There's a new IE coming? Hadn't heard about it. What, are they finally going to adopt internet standards?
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