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Optics Give Hard Drives a New Lease on Life

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Charles T. Troy

The Winchester-style disk drive, nearing the limits for magnetic storage, has been given a new lease on life, thanks to optics. Computer hard-drive maker Seagate Technology and its Quinta Corp. subsidiary have combined optical switching, fiber optics, microlenses, micromachined mirrors and a new medium with proven Winchester technology to produce a unit capable of packing 40 Gb of data into 1 square inch. Such densities would break the so-called superparamagnetic barrier -- the point at which traditional magnetic hard-disk media can no longer maintain a stable domain. Quinta engineers...Read full article

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