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Flash hard disks prompted quick Giant Magnetoresistance award
The 2007 Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance is "a Nobel prize that in two or three year's time we won't cherish" announced Fujitsu Siemens' CTO Joseph Reger last week.
By taking advantage of Giant Magnetoresistance, hard disks have about 10 times the density of hard disks made that are unaware of the quantum effect.
Reger's point was, of course, that flash based hard drives are due to take over. He praised the scientists who made the discovery but said it was now or never for the Nobel prize going their way. FSC's top brass predicts that, based on current trends, Nand Flash drives will be as cheap, reliable and as spacious as mechanical hard disks for servers by 2008.
Server hard disks are more expensive because their heat tolerance is a lot higher and their access times usually lower, so the rest of us could be waiting a bit longer for solid state drives in our machines. If my pockets were lined with gold, then a flash hard drive would definitely be at the top of my shopping list.
Posted by Emil Larsen on November 12, 2007 | Permalink
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