FREE ESSAY ON STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

Summary of findings about
Innovations in Magnetic and Optical storage systems.
Using Nanotechnology scientists ar Rice University have been able to store 10 billion
gigabytes of data on physical storage small enough to fit into a small vial. The story
appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The idea of all the books on and bookshelf (and
yours, and yours, and yours ... in fact, all the books we could ever want to read) stored
inside the stylus of a little device is pretty exciting.
The complete story is at:
http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/08/24/tech_life/NANO24.htm
Some readers of the article commented:
(Since this is not a technical course, we could describe some sci-fi possibilities of
the device) ...
- "Well, if it's that small, you could just implant it under your skin. Kinda hard to
steal that, eh?"
- "If they become as cheap as they claim in the article, you could have ten copies of
your library. It wouldn't matter then if one was stolen."
-"Since they are nanotechnology, would it be possible to inject them into your
bloodstream? Then you would never lose your information. Except for the prospect of
having a mosquito run off with a few critical bits of your data."
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Several people wrote with the news burst from IBM annoucing a storage breakthrough.
Details are still forthcoming, but the advance will says it will be possible for
computers to store data 1,000 faster then they can now, however the actual usage of the
product is some years out.
The complete article is at:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/filters/bursts/0,3422,2310073,00.html
Bibliography
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