Holographic Storage
Longmont (CO) – Having shipped an apparently small number of holographic storage systems in late 2006 and in the first days of 2007, Inphase today said that it has signed Germany-based DSM as original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of its Tapestry drives.
They’ve achieved a data density of 512 Gb/in^2, roughly double that of perpendicular hard drives. Their first product uses 300 GB disks (looks like a DVD), proof of concept has been demonstrated up to 1.2 TB.
Flash Memory 32 GB Solid State Disk
Seoul (Korea) – Samsung said that it has begun sampling of 50 nm NAND flash memory chips that are required to build the long announced 32 GB 2.5″ solid state disk (SSD). The flash drive is expected to replace traditional hard drives in higher end notebooks and offer significant advantages in data transfer rates as well as power consumption.
They are claiming 57 MB/s read, 32 MB/s write.
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Do you remember when a million was a large number? Last time I can remember thinking that was in 1991.
