http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/ibm-wants-to-kill-the-hard-drive/
I wondered what you guys would think about this?
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
― Ansel Adams
Does this mean I can no longer enjoy putting fridge magnets on storage? ಠ_ಠ
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I'll get excited when I see this for sale.
I've seen so many things that sound amazing like this but never actually happen.
It is IBM, so I wouldn't doubt it too much. They learned greatly from some of their shortcomings a couple decades ago. They are trying to innovate in several areas, silicon and hard drives.. I think silicon has a great chance because there is little innovation coming from Intel and AMD (in comparison to previous generations gaps). They have begun to stray from Moore's law, maybe that's cause they've used x86 too much and need a new architecture (or maybe because once you get down to a certain nanometer, things get really hard to maintain control of)... And I believe they will eventually create a new architecture or something new altogether. Whether it'll actually live up to its potential remains to be seen..
But eventually someone will create something that exceeds those.. It's just how technology works. Soon they will all die out to something newer and better. HDD and SSD will die eventually no matter what IBM does.
Thanks for sharing this article though! The video was cool.
I find that even after a company has a working prototype, it takes years before it ever hits the mainstream market, so I wouldn't hold my breath for this tech to hit he selves anytime soon (5-10 years if you're lucky). Types of memory will always evolve and have their place and benefits. Just when everyone though NAND's had reached their limits Samsung introduced 3D NAND's which pushes NAND's into SATA 4 speed capacities. The best technology doesn't always win out, and sometimes it comes down to cost, marketing, and what everyone is currently using. The idea of 3D NAND's is interesting since this concept can be applied towards a lesser known SSD technology - PCM (Phase Change Memory). PCM has a lot of potential but NAND's is where the money is at for now, but it does sound like this technology can be applied to existing NAND's. The question is how easily, consistently, and quickly can this be mass produced?
Honestly I think the next evolution of our tech will be moving from a silicon to a carbon based platform, and it's very possible this will be emerging within the next 5-8 years. It has been pointed to repeatedly as the solution for much of the limitations of what we are facing in the tech industry from processing, storage, and supply.
What do we want? .. time travel ... when do we want it? lol
+1 bring it on!
Yesterday! or tomarow er... um I'm not sure.
Misleading title
This is still a hard drive.
They want to kill hard disk drive's and ssd's (HDDs & SSDs)
Hard Drives, strictly speaking is long term storage This seems like that but in another form. Sign me up it look exciting!
about it lasting forever... Will it? IIRC magnets still lose there power over time, unless of course these are electromagnets. Or is the time that these degrade significantly longer and negligible? Never the less I may be wrong about the magnets.
MAGNETS HOW DO THEY WORK
We'll see if its obtainable; or another of those super technologies that never go to market.
irrelevant Oo
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That's incorrect, sir.
Definition:
- a high-capacity, self-contained storage device containing a read-write mechanism plus one or more hard disks, inside a sealed unit. Also called hard disk drive.
"Plus one or more hard disks, in a sealed unit"
Hard drive is just a shortened term for "Hard disk drive"
Under your definition, a floppy drive and flash drive would be a hard drive, as well :P
ok maybe im wrong, what do you reffer an ssd as?
I refer to an HDD as a hard drive, and an SSD as a solid state drive.
I'm not saying that calling them both hard drives is some sort of sin, I was just commenting that the OP was not wrong in his title.
I really like the idea but I find that most of these uber-amazing technologies that look like they could change the world over night are often too good to be true. And when they're not they are prohibitively expensive.
Please don't necro