Complexity Digest 2006.38 - 17.02

18-Sep-2006

The Bootless Pc And Terabytes On A Dime, Computerworld Bookmark and Share

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Imagine a PC with instantaneous boot up or storing 10TB of data -- 10,000 gigabytes -- on a device the size of a dime with data-transfer rates unhampered by any latency.

Those are just two examples of the promises that storage nanotechnologies hold: combining the functions of memory chips and disk drives on a single piece of hardware that is a fraction of the size of devices today.