Dataslide anyone ? (real techies only!)

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A friend of a friend is working on this at Sussex. Basically it's a new form of hard drive with virtually instantaneous data transfer. It's able to read and write in one movement.

How it was explained to me was that it's 2 plates, a reader/writer plate and a storage plate. The reader/writer moves very slightly (slides) across the storage plate and can read the whole area in one pass. Similarly it can write a whole area in a single pass.

Eventually it means that computers won't be I/O dependant anymore.

Well I thought it was interesting but then again that's just me :D

Anybody else heard anything about it ?

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Dick
 
Looks interesting but from their specs, the drives won't sell until the second generation...the first is limited to 64gb :eek:

You can get 250gb HD's for well under a ton now, so they're up against Raid 0 setups thatare already immensely fast for not a lot of money.
 
Fanum said:
Looks interesting but from their specs, the drives won't sell until the second generation...the first is limited to 64gb :eek:

You can get 250gb HD's for well under a ton now, so they're up against Raid 0 setups thatare already immensely fast for not a lot of money.
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Very true Bill but it's the future of the product that looks interesting. I don't know if this concept actually works in practice but it could be awesome once they've got it going. Imagine the potential of copying a 250GB (for example) in just a few seconds.

Give it a few years....

Cheers

Dick
 
High speed second line storage is the holy grail of the computer industry. Network and bus bandwidth has been increasing exponentially but the ability to fill that "pipe" with data has been limited by the speed of the disks connected to it. If and when this new technology comes off it will be exciting. The fact that it is a British invention is both exciting and worrying - exciting because it's nice to tweak the Yanks/Japs nose, worrying because we have a track record of doing achieving with our own inventions (with some notable exceptions like ARM)

Mike
 
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Sometimes I think that I'm too much of a geek then you guys come along and make me feel so much better :D


but yes, this could be the thing to take over from masses of SATA disks as second line storage...
 
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