Seagate, Continuing the charge twards giant hard drives

[krazykarl]

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/inv...rd-drives.html

First it was perpendicular recording, now its nanotube lubricant (somehow that just sounds dirty) what will they think of next to keep our spinning magnetic platter-based storage media charging to obscene capacities. At this rate, Flash hard drives will never become competitive.

[Incinerate_IV]

Its good companies are trying to make hard drives better, since hard drives has been pretty much been the same for 10+ years! I don't think flash drives will go away though, flash drives is going to be the future of hard drives, once they find a way to bring their price down. Its pretty much better than triditional hard drives in every way, it uses much less power, has no moving parts, and the transfer rates is much faster than normal hard drives.

Oh yea your link is dead.

[krazykarl]

Hmm the link seems to work fine now, perhaps they got slashdotted earlier. The biggest problem with flash drives (in thier current state) is that you can only write to them somewhere about 100,000 times before they wont hold a charge in a cell anymore.