EETimes heeft een artikel over een nieuwe storage technologie waarmee het mogelijk wordt om 2300Gbyte in een PCCard te douwen. Eerder zagen we hierover een nieuwsbericht bij The Register, maar het is altijd handig om te weten dat hun nieuws door 'serieuze' sites wordt bevestigd. EETimes heeft ook meer info over de gebruikte technologie:
The memory system exploits the storage properties of a new family of metal alloys, said Mike Downey, managing director of Cavendish Management Resources Ltd. (London), a venture capital firm that formed Keele High Density as a joint venture with Keele University. The company plans to license the technology to computer and storage companies. Downey described the memory system as solid-state and three-dimensional, with data stored in multiple layers.[...] Although the system is described as solid-state it does require moving parts to roughly align an optical system above the storage medium and to focus the beam used for writing, reading and erasing data. Focusing is used to provide fine control of the addressing in x, y and z directions with the variable focus and transparent microscopic layers used to store data in three dimensions. The data access time for the new storage technology is predicted to be around 100 Mbytes/second.
According to the company, an additional advantage over existing data storage systems is that only 20 percent of the total capacity is needed for error correction, significantly less than the 40 percent now needed for hard disks and 30 percent for optical storage.
Een PCCard met 2300Gbyte capaciteit zou bij gebruik van deze technologie slechts 50 dollar hoeven te kosten. Errug interessant...
