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Breakthrough Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Digital Data Storage Disks

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 11, 2004 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (309) | comments 2

Have you ever dream of 100 terabyte of data per 3.5-inch disk? New patented innovation nanotechnology from Michael E. Thomas, president of Colossal Storage Corporation, makes it real. ...


New data storage design likely to increase data capacity

New data storage design likely to increase data capacity

Nanotechnology /

created Apr 07, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (126) | comments 0

If you always seem to be running out of memory on your computer to store songs or photos, be assured that increasing data storage is a hot topic in nano labs. Scientists have built a patterned magnetic recording ...


Jerome P. McDonough

'Digital dark age' may doom some data

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (119) | comments 11

What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive?


Researchers Move Closer To New Class of Memory

Researchers Move Closer To New Class of Memory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (88) | comments 7

Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists.


Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 15, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (51) | comments 1

Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ...


The Library of Congress in your wrist watch?

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (50) | comments 1

Every advance in memory storage devices presents a new marvel of just how much memory can be squeezed into very small spaces. Considering the potential of nanolasers being developed in Sakhrat Khizroev’s lab at the University ...


Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives

Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (39) | comments 4

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now ...


Sam Bader

Nano-finding points to new computer technologies based on magnetic spin

Physics /

created Jan 18, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (38) | comments 0

An unusual pool of scientific talent at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, combined with new nanofabrication and nanocharacterization instruments, is helping to open a new frontier ...


Ideally Ordered Nanohole Patterned Media Enables Capacity Potential to 1.2TB for 2.5'' HDD

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 09, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (37) | comments 0

Fujitsu today announced the results of a joint collaboration by Yamagata Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, and Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology to create ideally “ordered” alumina nanohole patterned ...


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IBM Builds on 50 Years of Spinning Disk Storage

Electronics / Business

created Sep 09, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (59) | comments 0

IBM, that oh-so-straight-laced bastion of research, development and commercial success, is kicking back a little to celebrate an anniversary this month and reflect upon how far technology has come since the ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


New nano-method may help compress computer memory

New nano-method may help compress computer memory

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 22, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (31) | comments 0

A team of chemists at Brown University have devised a simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment ...


Samsung Launches World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk

Samsung Launches World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk

Electronics / Hardware

created May 23, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD). This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing ...


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Flash Memory Boom

Electronics /

created Nov 08, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (32) | comments 0

If you’re not familiar with flash memory, you should be. It’s poised to make a whole host of older technologies obsolete – all to your advantage. You probably own some and are not even aware of it. If you ...


Samsung Says 3D Silicon Will Drive Boundless Industry Growth in Unprecedented Era of Fusion Technology

Samsung Says 3D Silicon Will Drive Boundless Industry Growth in Unprecedented Era of Fusion Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 13, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (33) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics today shared stunning prospects for a new industry-fusing technology era that will offer tremendous global opportunities for expanded use of three-dimensional (3D) silicon-based technologies. ...