ENGL 758A: Inscribing Media

Since I know you like Hard drives so much, Matt, and because the technology is of interest to me in my seminar paper, I’m posting this link on some hard drive innovations currently in production:

“1.8″ Hard Drives: Small is Beautiful” from Tom’s Hardware

Of interest in the article’s conclusion:

However, we need to make one thing unmistakably clear: the hard drive is still the main performance bottleneck in many application scenarios, and on all existing PC types. Whether you start Windows, launch applications or flip through large digital photos, you will always experience a delay due to the hard drive.

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The bottom line is that there is an essential tradeoff between performance and physical characteristics. If you want an ultraportable PC using a 1.8″ drive, you will forfeit performance. There is nothing that can change this right now, but ultraportable notebooks, UMPCs and smallest-form-factor solutions will lose their 1.8″ drive handicaps in the near future.

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