Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:37:07 -0500 "Greg Freemyer"
wrote: See http://physorg.com/news109253804.html.
Talks about Terabit solid state memory sticks with 100,000 year retention times. The trouble is they think this will take 10 years to go from the lab to production.
Still it is interesting to see they are still coming up with entirely new technologies to drive densities ever higher.
Back when I lived in San Antonio in the mid-1970s, there was a great deal of excitement in the industry regarding solid state memories that could replace hard drives. The primary hope at that time was bubble memory. Over the past 30 years hard drive manufacturers have been able to improve reliability, reduce size and increase storage capacity. I think that we might see solid state start to replace spinning magnetic media within the next decade or so but it has been kind of a holy grail but memory sticks essentially have replaced floppy disks and even CDs in some cases today. But so far the hard drive vendors have been able to keep the price per byte very reasonable.
Many years ago, when I was a technician supporting mini-computers, we evaluated a solid state "drive" from Ampex (IIRC). It consisted of standard semiconductor memory, with built in battery backup. Back in those days, you could even buy S-100 bus battery boards, to keep CMOS memory up when the computer was off. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org