“Storage – there is never enough of it. I still remember when I thought my 700MB hard drive was huge… until I tried to copy an entire CD onto it for faster access. After that, I spent a period stuck choosing music to stick on my three GB hard drive. Two weeks ago, I ditched six months’ worth of simulation data because my 320GB hard drive was full. One TB of new drive later, and I’m wondering how soon it will be before I start feeling the squeeze again. Maybe never, if some of the latest research coming out of Korea and Germany bears fruit.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Nokia delivers knockout blow to Android @ The Inquirer
- More Details on Elemental’s GPU Accelerated H.264 Encoder @ AnandTech
- Intel to launch three Nehalem-based processors by the end of 4Q08 @ DigiTimes
- WGA Plug-In Bug In Firefox 3 @ TechARP
- Samsung SC-HMX10A High Definition HD Solid State Memory Camcorder Review @ Tweaknews
- Hands On With BD Live @ Tweaktown
- ECS Factory Tour 2008 in Shenzhen, China @ Virtual-Hideout
- Polaroid PoGo Pocket-Size Printer @ Digital Trends
- (Dis)Advantages of Storing on the Internet @ [OC]ModShop
Tiny capacitor, big capacity
Drop by Ars Technica for an overview, and link to, a paper on using ferroelectric nanocapacitors as a storage medium. The papers claim of one Tb/inch2 is a bit of an exaggeration for their current process, but as lithography progresses, the terabyte may be in reach. If they can advance it quickly enough, we may see a whole new type of solid state storage.
