What does MAGDRIVE stand for?

Today, the magnetic disk drive industry "is dependent on nanotechnology" for the creation of higher capacity and lower cost storage technologies, Kryder said.

2] on state-of-the-art magnetic disk drives --a recording density 40 times greater than todays top commercial offerings.

Currently in the prototype stage, a 1,024-tip device can already write bits in less space--albeit in a spotty manner--than the best laboratory magnetic disk drives can, the researchers claim.

which is 10 or 20 times lower than today's magnetic disk drives and this moderate areal density leads to volumetric densities of over a Tb/cubic inch.

Researchers have harnessed spin in metals already--for instance, in the circuits used in computers' hard magnetic disk drives.

Leader in Holographic Storage Successfully Demonstrates 515 Gigabits Per Square Inch Data Density; as Compared to 300 Gigabits for Magnetic Disk Drives InPhase Technologies, the world's leader in holographic data storage, announced today that it has demonstrated the highest data density of any commercial technology by recording 515 gigabits of data per square inch.

11, 1997) teaches and claims important aspects of the emulation of a magnetic disk drive in removable flash memory storage products, such as SD(TM) Cards, Memory Stick Pro(TM), USB flash drives, certain portable flash audio players, CompactFlash(R), and MultiMediaCards(TM) among others.

But if Santa Clara University engineering professor Al Hoagland has his way, the magnetic disk drive, the cornerstone of the modern technological revolution, will emerge from obscurity.