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Hard Rectangular Drive Is Faster, More Efficient Than SSD

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Kakkoister
06/22/09

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I'd still rather have SSD's. As fabrication process's get smaller and smaller, they will vastly overtake the amount of data that can be stored on a magnetic platter. Plus they are more resistant to physical damage.

Plus there's a problem with this tech, since your fabricating the millions of heads like you would a memory chip or CPU, that takes up A LOT of the wafer space. So the cost for each of these drives would be around $1000, just for manufacture cost's.

It's not going to be worth it, SSD's are going to be increasing in speed quite a bit, especially when we start getting down to the fabrication processes that use graphene and carbon nanotubes.
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NeoAkira
06/22/09

@Kakkoister:

I work in a nanotech lab and I'll tell you that it will be YEARS before you start seeing graphene and carbon nanotube-based chips being sold commercially.
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prunetracy
06/22/09

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yes, but the real questions is- will it blend?
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prunetracy
06/23/09

@prunetracy:

oh c'mon guys. that's HARDLY a 'first' type banworthy comment. i was exhausted at work- surely you've all done things in a work stupor before.
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Geisrud
06/23/09

@prunetracy: Yes. Yes it is.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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Carlo Gaudreault
06/22/09

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Once we get to a point where data is limitless and instantaneous, whats next?
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lolgreg
06/22/09

@Carlo Gaudreault: Using data as fuel... that's what's next.
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