To: Mark Oliver who wrote (3754 ) 7/23/1998 7:03:00 PM From: Stitch Respond to
Mark,<<As an insider, are you also hearing that GMR heads are having huge losses due to ESD (Electro Static Discharge)? >> atoms in width. The "flying height" of the read/write head in such a drive would be less then 1/10 of a micro inch. That, he said, is virtual contact as there would be "no room for air". (I love it when technologist talk like this.)In this product the coercion and subsequent remanence of a magnetic domain would have a substantially diminished shelf life, and would "lose" its magnetic properties over the course of five years or so. In order to handle that, storage strategist would develop heirarchial storage management substantially more sophisticated then what we have today. Think tape drives are dead? Think again. They have magnificant advantages in such a heirarchy. It is quite possible that the magnetic films on tape will be sputtered someday, to finishes that surpass today's most complex thin-film HDD media.
