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Research into the field of light powered computing has made some considerable strides as of late. Most notably, the science behind a laser powered hard drive has been more solid than ever before.
A laser powered hard drive would work on the principles of picosecond pulse lasers working where magnetic read/write heads would (something that was considered to be impossible until recently). Drives working on these fundamentals would provide a 1 TB/s transfer rate with their first generations, and others after that would reach speeds of 100TB/s and over.
Supposedly, this technology will be available within only five years, but like most laser technology, we’ll believe it when we see it.
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I Jedi
January 16, 2009 at 11:34am
Yeah, I'll hold my breath on this one, too, but I do hope it eventually comes forth.
STorpedo
January 16, 2009 at 12:37am
The storage field is killing it recentley, as if 500gb increases in storage weren't enough, we got 300gb raptors now, io fusion is coming out with a PCI-4x 80gb storage with 800mb/s read, ocz vertex ssds better than intel's and for half the price. Having said that, I think this tech could be a bit late to the party, 1tb/s reads are coming in at least a year or two, and SSDs sound a heck of a lot more dependable, and smaller. Also laser tech sounds very expensive, especially with precision reading that 1tb/s requires, and by that time SSDs will be cheap as chips.
jcollins
January 15, 2009 at 1:43pm
Pretty interesting tech news. I'm assuming the 1TB transfer rate is theoretical though, and that real world performance would be less. I'm also doubtful that the physical technology is up to 1TB transfer rates (considering it's in the 1 GB range with the really high end drives (and usually much less)).
