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Current disk drive technology uses magnets to read/write. Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands have used laser light to write data to a magnetic hard drive at very high speeds.
Read more at Laser to write data
Kevin Spiess - Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | 12:49PM (PST)
The gigabyte… Rest In Peace.
Don’t get too used to using GB’s to describe hard drive sizes — the end is in sight for desktop hard drives offering less than 1 terabyte of space.
Find out more at Seagate and Samsung start shipping 1TB hard disks
By Felisa Yang It seems like only yesterday that we were agog at the idea of having tens of gigabytes in a hard drive. Now, a few hard drive vendors who believe that consumers are beyond gigabytes have unleashed terabyte hard drives onto the market. That’s right, a terabyte. That’s 1,000 gigabytes.
Find out more at Terabyte RAID arrays
The battle is to keep alive Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every 18 months. Moore’s Law has been the driving force behind increasing computing speeds and the decreasing cost of electronics gear over the 40 years since it was coined by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore.
Read more at Computer World
By Valerie Henson. Article from Computerworld.
Excerpts:
Their first major result was that the real-world failure rate was much higher than manufacturers’ estimates: an average of 3% vs. the estimated 0.5% to 0.9%.
… for an individual user for whom losing his disk is a disaster, replacing the disk at the first sign of a SMART error makes eminent sense.
Read more at Computerworld: Real-world disk failure rates offer surprises