Tuesday, June 23, 2009

More moving parts? You gotta be kidding me!!!

Reported in Tom's Hardware that referenced Register Hardware, excerpted below...

British boffins ditch spinning media for ultra-fast storage tech

Not SSD, not HDD. Say hello to 'Hard Rectangular Drive'

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The read-write layer comprises a grid of millions of read-write heads created using the same lithography process used to make silicon chips. Each head is controlled by sending a signal along the appropriate row and column of the grid.

DataSlide HRD

Inside HRD

There's not, however, a 1:1 correspondence between head and data bit on the media layer. Instead, the middle part is moved in the horizontal plane by piezo-electrics to allow a head to read a selection of bits, grouped as a sector.

You have got to be freakin' kidding me!!! More moving parts??? DUMB!

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