"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/i...he-hard-drive/

Lynn

Lynn McGuire wrote:

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/i...he-hard-drive/

Lynn

An interesting short read but mostly worthless. Not relevant to today.
When such drives can be proven to be mass produced and then get under
the sub-$400 cost to be within the end users budget then it will be
relevant. There were video cards in the multi-thousand price but
consumers weren't buying them. There are all sorts of these what-if
experiments going on all the time. They're not important to consumers
until production happens and the price is affordable.

On 9/5/2014 2:04 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/i...he-hard-drive/

Lynn

An interesting short read but mostly worthless. Not relevant to today.
When such drives can be proven to be mass produced and then get under
the sub-$400 cost to be within the end users budget then it will be
relevant. There were video cards in the multi-thousand price but
consumers weren't buying them. There are all sorts of these what-if
experiments going on all the time. They're not important to consumers
until production happens and the price is affordable.

Yup, my thoughts also. Wasn't there a press release
for IBM's 10 TB holographic drive about ten years ago
or so? Haven't heard anything since then.

Lynn

Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 9/5/2014 2:04 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/i...he-hard-drive/

Lynn

An interesting short read but mostly worthless. Not relevant to today.
When such drives can be proven to be mass produced and then get under
the sub-$400 cost to be within the end users budget then it will be
relevant. There were video cards in the multi-thousand price but
consumers weren't buying them. There are all sorts of these what-if
experiments going on all the time. They're not important to consumers
until production happens and the price is affordable.

Yup, my thoughts also. Wasn't there a press release
for IBM's 10 TB holographic drive about ten years ago
or so? Haven't heard anything since then.

Lynn

That racetrack stuff has been around for a decde or so. And
before that, there was bubble-memory with much the same problematic
access model. Maybe they can compete with SSDs eventually for
some applications, but plain old HDDs are just far too cheap
per byte to get beaten anytime soon.

Arno

On 5/9/14 11:47 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/i...he-hard-drive/

Lynn

I didn't watch the video, but from the textual description, it's not
very different from a spinning hard disk.

Each track in a spinning hard disk is a racetrack, isn't it?

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On 08/09/2014 8:20 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 5/9/14 11:47 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented"
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/i...he-hard-drive/

Lynn

I didn't watch the video, but from the textual description, it's not
very different from a spinning hard disk.

Each track in a spinning hard disk is a racetrack, isn't it?

No, although it's very vague what the racetrack is exactly, they
definitely made the point of saying that it's *not* a spinning
mechanical device of any kind. Closer to flash than hard drive. They
were also suggesting that they could replace the flash with this
racetrack memory, and it would be indistinguishable to the controller.

Yousuf Khan