by Jin Kim
“The technology in question replaces the aluminum or glass platter in your hard disk drive with a “platter” made from stainless steel or titanium foil that is 22 microns or 25 microns thick, respectively. The materials cost more but we use so much less of it (the disk is so incredibly thin) that the total material cost is substantially less.” [I, Cringely]
Just think about the boost in disk throughput these drives could potentially give to our large database reads. Larger, faster, cheaper, energy efficient and more resilient than conventional and flash based drives. =)
[Ed. Note: The article also talks about the idea that these drives also require less electricity to store more data, which makes them ideal in data centers. We've written on the power draw of data centers before.]
Jin Kim is a QA Specialist at NetQoS
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