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 …

…having a mosquito run off with a few critical bits of your data.” ============================================================= 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 ZDNET