Lasers Give Disk Drives a Huge Boost
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Researchers user lasers to increase disk write speeds by one hundred times over current drives.
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Philips Electronics unveiled an optical disk drive on Monday for use in computers that can burn and play CDs and DVDs in three formats, including the new Blu-ray standard.
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New hard drive technology developed with Tohoku University could increase areal density to 1Tbit/sq inch and beyond.
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The technology could boost LED power, increase solar-panel efficiency and reduce light spillage inside cameras.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
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Developing a new use for the material that's already the foundation of the computer chip industry, Intel Corp. researchers have built a continuously shining silicon laser that could drive down the cost of optical networking.
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By exploiting the physics of how light reflects off of pits in a plastic surface, researchers have come up with a method for storing 1,000 gigabytes of data on a DVD-size disk.
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The latest storage numbers are in and -- big surprise -- storage spending is up.
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Researchers say they've created a nifty optics-on-a-chip device that overcomes a major obstacle in harnessing the full power and speed of light waves. By the Associated Press.
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An electrically driven laser expands the range of photonic crystal devices.
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New technology could mean superfast data transfer inside the computer.
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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Western Digtial's latest external drive tops out at one terabyte. In Gear Factor.
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Israeli company Mempile uses fluorescence to store up to 1 terabyte of data on an optical disc.
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Device features two optical drives and a 160GB hard drive for storing content.
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Samsung Electronics is shipping hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory. The company claims that the system delivers a 70% to 90% cut in power consumption thanks to its ability to use NAND for caching data.
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The method uses a laser to heat the recording surface and alter its magnetic field. Thus there is the promise of increasing data writing speed up to one hundred times. This will enable hard disk data writing speed to better keep up with ever-faster data transfers across networks.