Somewhat related:
SSDs have a ‘bleak’ future, researchers say
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224322/SSDs_have_a_bleak_future_researchers_say
Ping
Is this totally different from HAMR?
Writes magnetically, reads optically. Common name Mini Disc. Later recycled into the PSP UMD game carts.
I’ve often wondered why they never put two or four heads on a single hard drive platter. You would essentially have two or four hard drives in one(depending on the number of heads. Then each head would be sequentially synchonized so that one head would read/write one bit, the next head the next bit, and so on. So if you have 4 heads, there would be 4 separate tracks each reading and writing slightly out of phase. You would quadruple your speed with 4 heads without increasing the RPMs of the platter. If a hard drive had 4 platters and 4 heads per platter, you’d have 16 times the speed.
Great, we now get to watch trash faster, and we can store
more of it at a faster rate!
uhm, no.
Get rid of plates and go SSD or crystalline type structures.
flpping something on a record player isn’t going to make it faster just tighter.
