A new hard drive technology based on lasers

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04 Jul 07 16:55 by geno888 in category Uncategorized To news archive

After the perpendicular technology, there is another advancement in hard drives technology.

On a very interesting news, Ars Technica reported that researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands were able to achieve a much faster perfoming drive using laser beams to transfer data on a magnetic hard drive at speeds of up to 40 femtoseconds per bit, i.e. about 100 times faster than currently available HDDs.

This new technology is able to increase the speed of data storage, but it has no potential to increase also drive capacity. Of course, this is only an experimental technology and there are some not yet solved issues, but it seems really promising.

 

7 Comments

heffeque
Posts: 169
Posted on: 04 Jul 07 18:42
Just so people realize how much 40 femtoseconds is... 100 femtoseconds is the time required to travel across a human hair, if traveling at the speed of light
DukeNukem
Posts: 998
Posted on: 04 Jul 07 21:25
A femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_E-15_s
williams.ronald@btinternet.com
Posts: 1
Posted on: 04 Jul 07 23:42
could I type that fast
shaolin007
Posts: 883
Posted on: 05 Jul 07 04:46
Wow that is SLOW!!! :-)
tylau
Posts: 248
Posted on: 05 Jul 07 05:15
What use is this technology alike, if all we have is not the bottleneck in internal transfer rates of a HDD.
tylau
Posts: 248
Posted on: 05 Jul 07 05:20
btw, just how many people know current HDD has already surpass 1GB/s mark internal transfer rate, while interface is still working at less than 40MB/s as in SATA2. And just how much is 40 femtosecoond compared with 4ms, with state of art average mechanical seek, I wonder

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