arstechnica.com— Scientists and researchers have discovered a fascinating effect that could cause hard drive data to get crushed in a rapidly-spreading "avalanche" of bit-flipping electrons.
Jul 24, 2007View in Crawl 4
FTA "As PC World noted, Deutsch and Berger's letter suggests that today's hard drives are mostly immune to runaway avalanches because of this damping effect, something achieved by trial and error over the years as manufacturers found out what materials made for reliable hard drives"In other words, this really shouldn't concern you
This article is just fud. At the bottom they state that modern hard drives are largely "immune" to this because they have already encountered this problem and found ways to work around it.
While you will never in your lifetime experience this effect, it is however a limit on hdd space.hitachi semi-solved it by their perpendicular thing as shown above in a post, but even then thats just 10x more then horizontal.The point is the way we are doing things now is not going to work ten years in the future as we reach the limit.
skjedeJul 25, 2007
I have enough trouble as it is going around my office and taking magnets off co-worker's cases.
Closed AccountJul 25, 2007
FTA "As PC World noted, Deutsch and Berger's letter suggests that today's hard drives are mostly immune to runaway avalanches because of this damping effect, something achieved by trial and error over the years as manufacturers found out what materials made for reliable hard drives"In other words, this really shouldn't concern you
diggfightJul 25, 2007
This article is just fud. At the bottom they state that modern hard drives are largely "immune" to this because they have already encountered this problem and found ways to work around it.
masterthief117Jul 25, 2007
What about all my porn? How will I ever be able to replace it? Oh wait...
unknownczarJul 25, 2007
While you will never in your lifetime experience this effect, it is however a limit on hdd space.hitachi semi-solved it by their perpendicular thing as shown above in a post, but even then thats just 10x more then horizontal.The point is the way we are doing things now is not going to work ten years in the future as we reach the limit.
Closed AccountJul 26, 2007
too much is no good no matter what is it
2oonhedJul 26, 2007
I have an avalanche in my PANTS!