Hard Disk speed limit found according to CNN article...

[InlineFive]

Link to CNN

(AP) -- If there is an article of faith in computer science, it's that everything can keep getting faster and faster.

But scientists say they've discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved.

The good news: This limit is about 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art data storage devices.

The project was led by researchers at Stanford and included a scientist at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow and engineers at disk-drive maker Seagate Technologies LLC.

 

[Jeff7]

All the more reason to research solid state technologies.

 

[Anubis]

im still waiting for the crystal HS storage thing useing diff wavelengths of light, someting like 2 TB on a 1inch cube

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still waiting for the crystal HS storage thing useing diff wavelengths of light, someting like 2 TB on a 1inch cube

I'm waiting for optics to replace electronics completely.

 

[InlineFive]

All this technology advancement always reminds me of The Matrix.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Anubis
im still waiting for the crystal HS storage thing useing diff wavelengths of light, someting like 2 TB on a 1inch cube

Seagate is developing a technology it expects to increase data density up to 50 terabits per sq inch or 6.25 TB/in^2. It's a ways off, but they do expect to reach 1Tb by 2010. The Winchester drive design is not going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[AluminumStudios]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
All this technology advancement always reminds me of The Matrix.

It reminds me more of Star Trek the Next Generation where people lived in peace and happily with awesome technology. I always liked that shows positive outlook ...

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: AluminumStudios

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

All this technology advancement always reminds me of The Matrix.

It reminds me more of Star Trek the Next Generation where people lived in peace and happily with awesome technology. I always liked that shows positive outlook ...

Data was extremely cool...

 

[Waylander]

cool article, I read it, unfortunatly you need a linear accelerator that measures 3.2 km long to get the particles up to speed!!!

probably not a lot of use for a laptop!!

anyone for a 58 megawatt psu?

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Waylander
cool article, I read it, unfortunatly you need a linear accelerator that measures 3.2 km long to get the particles up to speed!!!

probably not a lot of use for a laptop!!

anyone for a 58 megawatt psu?

I'll take eight. /futurama

 

[Tab]

So, how fast is this hard drive exactly? 7200,000 RPMs?

 

[Duvie]

What happen to that idea of storing data in a hologram like environment and taking advantage of volume even though it may be a fraction of a millimeter thick??? Does anybody remember this??? It seems like you could have seveal layers of these each with there holgraphic image giving it some sort of depth....


At 1000 faster then today that should give us some room to grow!!!

In 1995 I bought a pentium 75mhz cpu and now I have 3.5ghz or 47 times greater in speed though likely closer to 100 times faster in speed with things like MMX,SSE,SSE2, HT, etc.....That was 10 years so I imagine things grow more epxonential then linear in technology like this...So that may mean 20 years time we may hit that limit.

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: Duvie
What happen to that idea of storing data in a hologram like environment and taking advantage of volume even though it may be a fraction of a millimeter thick??? Does anybody remember this??? It seems like you could have seveal layers of these each with there holgraphic image giving it some sort of depth....


At 1000 faster then today that should give us some room to grow!!!

In 1995 I bought a pentium 75mhz cpu and now I have 3.5ghz or 47 times greater in speed though likely closer to 100 times faster in speed with things like MMX,SSE,SSE2, HT, etc.....That was 10 years so I imagine things grow more epxonential then linear in technology like this...So that may mean 20 years time we may hit that limit.

The limit with the mechanical hard drive technology. There is currently research being done on holographic data storage as well as 3d storage devices. We're not going to sit with our hands tied on this one if we can help it

I know there are some big names doing research in the areas and they were expecting some advances in their capabilities by about 2008. Who knows though? *shrug*

-silver

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: AluminumStudios

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

All this technology advancement always reminds me of The Matrix.

It reminds me more of Star Trek the Next Generation where people lived in peace and happily with awesome technology. I always liked that shows positive outlook ...

and holodeck encounters involving jessica alba

 

[Pariah]

In 1995 I bought a pentium 75mhz cpu and now I have 3.5ghz or 47 times greater in speed though likely closer to 100 times faster in speed with things like MMX,SSE,SSE2, HT, etc.....That was 10 years so I imagine things grow more epxonential then linear in technology like this...So that may mean 20 years time we may hit that limit.

The very first 5.25" winchester drive was released by Seagate in 1979 and was also the first hard drive released for personal computers. This drive was capable of 625KB/s transfer rates. Today's fastest drive is capable of 80MB/s which is roughly 128 times faster. If it has taken 25 years to increase performance by 128 times, then we have a long long way to go before drive throughput increases by a 1000 fold from today.