HD's to supplant SSD flash in <20+yrs? :p

[udaman]

Nanodot hard drives may be in our future

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34476/113/

Well I was going to CnP the whole article...but you'll just have to make an effort ;).



Scientists have had an age old desire to tap the world of the ultra-small. Today's smallest production microprocessors we're all familiar with exist on 45nm process technology (http://www.tgdaily.com/#) for fabrication which, while very small, is still many scores of atomic layers thick. But imagine a storage device with the smallest components comprising only a few atoms, and one with the ability to change state very rapidly, 1000s of times faster than today's hard drives. That's just one potential of the monobubble nanodot.

[jtr1962]

Interesting. Despite it's present wide-spread use, flash RAM is by no means necessarily the path to the future. Perhaps MRAM or something like this will be used instead. I don't see anything inherent in this technology which necessarily requires a spinning disk, though. I tend to think for reasons of power consumption, noise, durability, etc. that the idea of spinning disks is on its way out. It's just a matter of which of the many competing technologies will come out on top, or perhaps several of them will, depending upon the intended use.

[mubs]

IBM has already slowed down or stopped work on MRAM; unable to commercialize.

[LOST6200]

yeah, sure they say all jknids of nonsense decades aways. remebe when we would all have high density homographic strogae by 2002? Wher is my 100Gb credit card sized thimgmaJig for a few dollars?