More moving parts? You gotta be kidding me!!!
Reported in Tom's Hardware that referenced Register Hardware, excerpted below...
You have got to be freakin' kidding me!!! More moving parts??? DUMB!British boffins ditch spinning media for ultra-fast storage tech
Not SSD, not HDD. Say hello to 'Hard Rectangular Drive'
19th June 2009 11:48 GMT
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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.
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.
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