Solid State Drives had been a fast alternative until now, but with this latest development from British developer DataSlide, these could soon find a faster and perhaps a better alternative in non-rotating discs dubbed the Hard Rectangular Drives (HRD). With two-sided media layer and millions of read-write heads created using the lithography process, these discs are presumed to be 4x faster than the HDD and only half as power hungry as SSDs, which actually means transfer rates of 500 MB/s, stuffed well inside a 3.5-inch drive. Multiple heads suggest that multiple points of data can be read in parallel – which according to the makers is 64 heads read or written simultaneously. Developers have used piezoelectrics to assist the head to read a selection of bits clubbed in sectors. It may be a far-flung venture yet, but surely has a potential for real.
Via: RegHardware/Gizmodo
