Self-assembling polymer arrays could lead to larger hard drives, boastful Badgers
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 15th 2008 1:47PM
posted Aug 15th 2008 1:47PM
Most folks up in Madison are readying their face paint and stocking up on tailgating supplies, but the geeks among us (bless 'em!) are focusing their attention on something much more relevant to your future RAID array. A team from UW-Madison (along with partners from Hitachi) is getting set to publish a report that details a patterning technology that could offer performance gains over current methods while reducing time and cost of manufacturing. The process builds on existing approaches by "combining the lithography techniques traditionally used to pattern microelectronics with novel self-assembling materials called block copolymers." So, what does all this technobabble mean for you? Huge gains in density on patterned media, or if that's still not straightforward enough, ginormous HDDs in the near future.[Via Protein OS]
I see mechanical parts. Fail.
Yes, because it's much better to pay $400 for a 64GB SSD than $200 for a 1TB disk drive. I've got five 1TB drives and the equivalents storage in SSD would cost about $31K.
I bet you don't even own an SSD but you like to try present yourself as the technological elite and believe that mechanical parts are somehow below you.
I doubt any new technology will ever cost the same as current technology. This applies to SDD now and will certainly apply to Self-assembling polymer arrays. SSD will soon make its way to mainstream.
Doesnt anyone feel uncomfortable keeping so much data on one drive?
@Charles
You just got PWND
That's what RAIDs are for.
@DaSpider
"That's what RAIDs are for."
You mean thats what backups are for :) Raid is not a replacement for backing up your data.
I see Electrical Parts.... Fail..... dur...
Guess you dont drive a car either...
Come-on dude, 5 sentences is not enough to judge a product... Examine the hundreds of white pages and then judge that product, since using this product is a null point at this juncture.
Flame on!
*But then again maybe not!
@ Andy
RAID can be used as a backup. RAID 0 is probably the most common and sort of makes multiple drives recognized as one but RAID 1 writes the same data to multiple drives (a mirrored array) in case one were to fail you have your data on the other. aka a backup as you so bluntly put it.
its called Wikipedia. use it before you shoot your mouth off
@kojo87
Acutally, he's right. RAID can protect you in the event of a individual drive failures, but it's not meant to be a back-up solution. For example, what if you or another user accidently deletes a file they later realized they needed? What if a file gets corrupted? RAID isn't going to help you there since the file is going to be deleted/corrupted across your entire array. RAID is not a true back-up solution.
I would've appreciated them using their cheesehead geek knowledge to keep Favre from retiring outside of a Packer uniform. :( Looking at the cover of Madden '09 depresses the hell out of me.
how the HELL did you turn "larger hard drives" into "muscle-head sports crap"?!
really? was it just something in your head that you had to find and outlet for?
I suppose I should expect no less from someone that presents himself as a fairly retarded and lazy movie character that made about as much sense as jerry seinfeld. yuck.
"Self-assembling polymer arrays could lead to larger hard drives, boastful Badgers"
...And you forgot... HUGE(er) PORN COLLECTIONS!!!
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/02/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xix-watkins-says-seagate-helps-peopl/
amen.
Boastful Badger? Isn't that one of the upcoming releases of Ubuntu?
Methinks the author twas' 'bout that, mate.
blast! 'twas a "savvy" twixt them words! I swear!
Shouldn't they better be investing their money and research in ssd rather than keeping the hdd on life support.
I don't think anyone foresees multi-terabyte SSD's for undre 200$ in the near future, hence good 'ol spinny here.
I prefer spinny myself. Otherwise, without the gyroscopic action, my PC might fall over
1. Yeah.
2. Don't spam.
damn spammers Die Slow!
YEAH!! GO WISCONSIN!!! News like this makes me happy to be a geek in Madison. "The method offers precision, uniformity, and speed unattainable by traditional lithography-based methods alone and at lower cost." I cant wait for 5TB hard drives for $100
its actually kind of surprising to me how much i read about good ol Mad-town on Engadget and Joystiq. its pretty cool though :)
more space for porn
larger and larger hard drive techniques have been boasted for many many times,
but we are still on 1TB on the market.
Damn it.