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For many years now the main storage method used for computers have been hard drives that use spinning magnetic platters as the storage medium. Over the last few years, the solid-state drive has come to market with much faster performance and a much higher price tag.

A company called DataSlide has unveiled a prototype of a new storage device that may one day replace both HDDs and SSDs. The prototype technology is called Hard Rectangular Disk or HRD. DataSlide says that the technology is patented and can achieve 160,000 IOPS and 500MB/sec performance levels while consuming under 4 watts of power.

The device consists of a piezoelectric actuator that keeps the rectangular media in precise motion, a diamond solid lubricant to protect the surfaces (which are in direct contact) and a massively parallel 2D array of magnetic heads for reads and writes to up to 64 embedded heads at a time.

ZDNET reports that DataSlide is also working to incorporate the technology into a "smart" storage unit for use in I/O intensive multiple concurrent stream applications. The new device is at the prototype stage, but uses currently available production technology. The technologies used in the HRD include perpendicular recording media, semiconductor lithographic heads, and LCD glass treatments.

The concept for the HRD was taken from IBM's Millipede concept and then reworked with common and available technologies. The prototype has a long way to go before it reaches a final production stage and the company gives no idea as to how long it might take before the HRD comes to market. ZDNET reports that the HRD has a capacity of 36GB in its prototype stage.

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Is it a bit soon to talk about the replacement for SSDs? Those specs are pretty impressive though. 500MB/sec sounds really good to me. I don't quite get how it works though....
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Sickly awesome. More and more I see our world becoming that of sci-fi novels and movies... I mean holy shiza, imagine this tech with several layers of this material when we can fit TB's on each one... stack a few in one drive, bam. By the time my unborn child (due on Nov 19th, lol) is a teen, we'll have Petabyte drives... insanity!

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By the time my unborn child (due on Nov 19th, lol) is a teen, we'll have Petabyte drives... insanity!
An early congrats is in order. May your child live a long and healthy life.

Petabyte drives would be insane and the way technology advances we might even get into Exabyte.
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Sickly awesome. More and more I see our world becoming that of sci-fi novels and movies... I mean holy shiza, imagine this tech with several layers of this material when we can fit TB's on each one... stack a few in one drive, bam. By the time my unborn child (due on Nov 19th, lol) is a teen, we'll have Petabyte drives... insanity!
This isn't all that complex if you understand the basics of piezoelectricity. In fact, I find it's operation much simpler to understand compared with current NAND based SSDs.
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This isn't all that complex if you understand the basics of piezoelectricity. In fact, I find it's operation much simpler to understand compared with current NAND based SSDs.

All I know about piezoelectric crystals is that they are used in many US military munitions fuzing (firing device). You stress the crystal and it releases an electric pulse. Pretty easy using a stab detonator, a primer, a flexible shock transfer cable, a stress crystal and an electric contact lead wire to the electric detonator to initiate the main explosives (just described the explosive train) which results in a big boom!
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An early congrats is in order. May your child live a long and healthy life.

Petabyte drives would be insane and the way technology advances we might even get into Exabyte.
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All I know about piezoelectric crystals is that they are used in many US military munitions fuzing (firing device). You stress the crystal and it releases an electric pulse. Pretty easy using a stab detonator, a primer, a flexible shock transfer cable, a stress crystal and an electric contact lead wire to the electric detonator to initiate the main explosives (just described the explosive train) which results in a big boom!
Yes, and other materials aside from crystals can demonstrate piezoelectricity. Basically all it means is that the material will generate electricity when stress is applied to it.
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