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- LiquidIse, on 04/11/2008, -9/+74People need to cool it with iPods in this article, the uses for this are worlds beyond MP3 storage
- bigleslie, on 04/11/2008, -3/+43Another one of those "gee wiz" stories that make my gadget pants go crazy...until you get to the end and they say....it's in the experimental stages and should be on the market in 10 years or so. pfffft.
- Andrwmorph, on 04/11/2008, -0/+25Instant boot times would be great for those times when you really just want to get to fappin
- thespiff, on 04/11/2008, -1/+22Wow, I read 3 good science/tech articles on Digg front page this morning. I haven't been able to say that for a very long time. Kudos to the submitters/diggers who made this possible.
- dualscreenman, on 04/11/2008, -1/+17They were talking about PCs...
- Kindjal, on 04/11/2008, -0/+14File systems have nothing to do with the media they are written on. All storage devices come with a controller that does all the work. How the data is written to the device is done by the controller, SATA commands are translated to HD, SSD, iPods and many other devices regardless of how they work.
It might be smart to create a more effective protocol than SATA. 300MB/sec does nut cut it with storage devices like that. - ColorBlind, on 04/11/2008, -5/+17I'm sure some big name storage company will buy this technology for an obscene amount of cash and tuck it away in a vault somewhere.
Consumers are always getting the big screw. - polarpaw, on 04/11/2008, -3/+14This is going to be really sweet. Can't wait. It's about time SSD's became practical.
- norman619, on 04/11/2008, -2/+12Good for people who use portable media players in general.
- Aitese, on 04/11/2008, -1/+10Most people are not Apple fan boys...Apple just did a spectacular job making their brand synonymous with the product. I get asked daily if my Zune is "one of those iPods" from people who don't even know what Apple is...the think iPod is a word for any device that plays music without removable media involved...they go to the shop and they say to the counter clerk "do you have iPods?" and Apple win.
- Asrrin29, on 04/11/2008, -0/+9because mechanical hard drives wear and tear, and eventually break down. if you RTFA, you would see where the author points this out. and I don't want to even wait for a full minute for a computer to boot from cold startup if I have something pressing to do, such as look up information for any of various reasons.
Just because you are set in your stoneage ways doesn't mean the rest of us have to. - thcobbs, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8Good for everyone... eventually.
- chrislongridge, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8The Telegraph is a blog?
- kh99, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7I agree, but I think they just mention iPods as a way to describe how much data they are talking about, not to suggest the way it will be used.
- walkingdogs, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7Good for anyone who uses any electronic device that requires data storage. If this technology ever sees the light of day in consumer devices that is...
- Mootabolife, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7I'm pretty sure they mention iPods as a way to peak interest in the average consumer. What other technological device do you know of that many people relate to storage? A laptop is too multipurpose, average joe won't know ***** about servers, so they bring out good old reliable iPod.
- dwnwrd, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6Umm, IBM is a pretty big-name storage company. They R&D'd it for an obscene amount of cash, I'm sure.
- iguanapunk, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6Ah that's good news. I've been waiting for the perfect hard drive to upgrade to, 3GB just doesn't cut it anymore, not now that I've discovered Kazaa.
- crapmatic, on 04/11/2008, -2/+8You have to add 10 years every time "quantum" or "nano-"appears in an article. That puts rollout at about 2028.
- doctechnical, on 04/11/2008, -1/+6This "racetrack" idea sounds reminiscent of the Intel "Bubble" memory. Except bubble memory was slow as all get out. On the upside, it was non-volitile.
- Mysrt, on 04/11/2008, -1/+6crazy europeans writing the days before the month in their date, i thought this article was from the future.
- inactive, on 04/11/2008, -1/+6You can connect your iPod to your 50 inch LCD and watch any movie or TV shows w/o any loss of quality. Its not always about quantity, they're just using that as a way to compare.
- inactive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Mildly?
- RexxxMaster, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4leave iPod alone!
- nbcaffeine, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
Sound familiar? This is about as new as larry king. - floejoe, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5It's great for CCTV and recording any and all aspects of one's life. Why not do it if storage is unlimited. I'm not considering the philosophical implication of privacy, but I'm saying that when one has this much storage available at all times then there would be no reason to have a permanent digital record of one's life stored.
One can also use that record to combat memory diseases afflicting the brain and it would eliminate the need to "memorize" information and instead everything would be at your virtual fingertips at the speed of thought.
Large corporations such as banks would benefit from such low cost low powered solution and it would allow them to maintain several backup locations throughout the country making them less susceptible to internet outages and regional disasters.
Ok, done. - Appox, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5Sounds good, Hope it doesn't take years to come out.
- okaroleo, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4iPod hater!
- edein, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3thats why you always leave my computer on.
- WallnutBoy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3How the hell did you fill that up?! o.O
- DivisibleByZero, on 04/11/2008, -2/+5"In two papers in the journal Science, Dr Stuart Parkin and colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Centre in San Jose describe a revolutionary technology dubbed "racetrack" memory, or RM memory."
It sounds like somebody has a case of RAS Syndrome. - HappyScrappy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3The individual bits here are far smaller than the bubbles were in bubble memory.
- klco, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3And you are assuming he actually read the article?
- Asrrin29, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3I think a technology like this might alter more things then just storage. having one medium of storage that is as fast as RAM and as reliable and cheap as a hard drive would merge these two technologies into one. having software and filesystems that supported a pagefile type system might be interesting.
- Namco, on 04/11/2008, -2/+5Good for people who like racetracks.
- unomeasjon, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Lol, trust me.. there are people... Remember when the original ipod came out? "That many songs?" "Who needs to have all thoses songs with them?"
Instead of having all your favorite songs.. People will just take every song known to them on their ipod.. Sounds cool.. - nbcaffeine, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2It also was the 70s then. I'm sure they could improve it now but i agree, this is hardly a new thing
- Harabeck, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Sounds like it be worth even if we had to make a new file system.
- Labourer, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2That is a cynical point of view . Not that i'm saying business isn't cynical . Things go on behind closed doors. I do not believe any company , group or individual will supress this or any other technology that would allow mass storage. People are funny creatures give them enough memory space they will fill it with stuff but still it wont be enough. In a similar way that operating systems and processing power chase each other so do data and storage media. As they amount of storage becomes greater , people realise that they want to store higher and higher quality on it. I want it.
- floejoe, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2probably. They would be stupid not to. If you helped develop OLED technology wouldn't you want that work patented knowing that most world will use it in next 5 to 10 years?
- jrapp, on 04/11/2008, -1/+3That's one hell of a cynical opinion. The reality is, not selling a final product would result in impacting both the short term and long term for whatever company actually brings this to market. If you look at the current state of the economy in the U.S., you would realize that most companies don't really care about the long term impacts of anything they do. If you can sell a product and make a dollar today, that's the way to go, regardless of what the impact is 10 years down the road.
- HPMNick, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Well, while I agree that Vista is a resource hog.... Loading something like Ubuntu on a 10 year old computer is going to make it slow as hell.
I actually dual boot Ubuntu and XP on my 4 year old laptop (some centrino processor inside, 512 MB of ram)... and XP is comparable to Ubuntu on it. They both run a little slow by today's standards, but I'm hard pressed to see any differences.
Vista really is a tank though... - Labourer, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2That is not logical really. Like dwnwrd says IBM is pretty damn big if you ask me. Why bother releasing the information now? One reason is that it might provide an impetus to other researchers to begin working on similar things. This provides healthy competition and groups can learn from each other.
- Namco, on 04/11/2008, -1/+3The use of 'iPod" in an article is only done for 3 reasons. #1) It's about iPods, which this article isn't. #2) The writers of the are pathetic apple fanboys, and/or are writing the article to appeal to other pathetic apple fanboys, or #3) The writers are trying to make the article easier to understand for computer novices and complete idiots. I think it's a combination of 2 and 3. :D
- kurtu5, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2IMHO its a symptom to the coming singularity. You have to be fast to market. So ten years ago a program that worked at 100% was the standard. Today if you get it out quick enough, 10% is good.
- lacronicus, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1But, on the other hand, if it does exist, then it is, by it's very nature, not too good to be true. So, while your statement is "true," it doesn't really mean anything. In this case, "instant" boot simply means that there is no perceptible boot time, not that there is no boot time whatsoever.
- lacronicus, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1meh, I haven't had any more problems with vista than XP (which is to say, none with either). My system is almost always responsive, only becoming slow with 20 tabs open in FF, but that's hardly the operating system's fault.
- wenomspitta, on 04/12/2008, -0/+111.04.08, 11th April of 2008
- radix2, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1education
peak =/= pique
/education
Agree with your point though. -
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