Thu, 26 Oct 2006

Too good to be true?

Robert Cringely opens his new-look digs (now in blog format which is funny given how his columns predate the term by a good while, even though they always were `web logs') with a stunning column about a new disk technology coming to market next year:

[...] disk drives that held up to three times as much data in the same space, were more reliable, actually cheaper to build, and used 70-95 percent less energy to run.
[...]
Our metal foil drive costs less, not more, and spins up so quickly that data can be read from disk as fast or faster than it can be read from flash. Who needs a hybrid disk drive?
[...]
The market potential is one billion computer disk drives and one billion mobile phone drives per year. And it all starts around this time next year when metal foil drives will begin to appear under well-known brand names.

Bring'em on.

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