[Disk Drive Technology ] Thanks Ray & John for the help
Just to keep you up to date in the latest in storage technlogy.
By Jim Davis
March 3, 1997, 4:45 p.m. PT
Silicon Valley start-up TeraStor today revealed
plans to develop and license new technology that
will allow storage devices such as hard drives to
carry ten times as much data at a lower cost than
all other existing storage technologies.
Using a technology called Near Field Recording,
TeraStor says it will ship products in early 1998
with initial capacities of more than 20GB on one
side of a disk platter.
Currently, high-capacity hard drives might use 12
platters--each a separate magnetic disk--to deliver
around 9GB of storage. The same number of
platters using Near Field Recording technology
could store 240GB of data, the company claims.
The company says products using the technology
will be targeted for use in data warehouses,
workstations, and networked environments but
will also be inexpensive enough for use in desktop
computers.
"Today, the industry has several mass storage
technologies, each serving specialized needs of
various applications," said Jim McCoy, chairman
and CEO of TeraStor, in a prepared statement.
"The industry needs one affordable,
high-performance technology that can address the
requirements of all applications. We intend to fulfill
that need," says McCoy, who also is cofounder of
storage device makers Quantum and Maxtor. |
