Racetrack memory

[gambitt]

An article in The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) about a group from California that's developed a way to mix the large capacity of hard drives with the reliability and performance of solid state memory.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/graphics/2008/04/10/scimem110.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/04/10/scimem110.xml

I'm still not 100% sure how it's supposed to work, but it talks about quantum and spin and other stuff.

[Xen_Lunchbox]

bah too ineffiicient for computer storage unless its a server i guess, SSD harddrives are better considering that they are smaller AND much faster

[gambitt]

bah too ineffiicient for computer storage unless its a server i guess, SSD harddrives are better considering that they are smaller AND much faster

In the article they say that flash based SSD's have a finite life and degrade over time. It also mentions a slow write speed. Their claim seems to be that it'll be a SSD without flash and without the degradtion that goes with it.