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Migration to Efficient Hard Drives? No Moving Parts! By C. Rogers, 06.01 In all reality, modern technology will need to advance if hard disks with "non-moving" parts were to become a de facto standard. Aluminum platters today store data in the current crops of hard disks, by virtually all HDD manufacturers. While not a major delay in access time, requested data has to be searched throughout multiple platters for specific files, causing a few milliseconds of infraction. Not a big deal per se, but wouldn't it be nice to have a hard drive which could store data as seamlessly as would be in conventional memory? Wouldn't it also be great to remove the benchmark of "RPMs" from hard drive specifications? While the advent of an "immobile" storage standard is quite a bit off, such a task would be expensive in the pocketbooks for technology pioneers. However, if big companies such as Western Digital or IBM were to make blue plans for this presently, then the future could hold ultra-fast drives that keep up with the rapid advance in PC innovation. While some news sources report that CPU speed, front side bus, and amount of memory account for system speed, they are true to a limited extent. Hard drive data-transfer speed is something that should never be ignored-- one may be surprised how a lightning fast hard drive could even improve the performance of a mediocre system. |
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