How a Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1,000 Times Faster
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The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they're super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to market.
A team of scientists has demonstrated an amazing new way of writing data to magnetic storage devices. It uses lasers, and it can write data to disk about 1,000 times quicker than a normal spindle hard drive. We're talking gigabytes — maybe even terabytes — a second here. How the hell? »read more
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