Hard drives, not a new idea but?

[sciport]

Does anyone know if we eventually are going
to get away from using electro-mechanical hard drives or equilavent storage mediums.
Is there any research on storing information
on a chip, that will still be there when you power up the PC again?
The advantages are of course obvious much faster access (the old ram drive), storage capacities (hopefully)and no moving parts, the possiblity of icreasing capacity by adding chips like ram.
Just a thought , hope this fits in within the
parameters of the brainstorming board.
Sciport

[AuraEdge]

They have these...thier called solid state drives and cost around 16000 dollars for 4.3Gb or something like that
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Ive long been thinking about an storage alternative that combines the sturdyness of Optical media with the easy changability of the Magnetic drives, for not to much more..
Its got my brain racked...

[JeffD78]

If you want some more info:
http://www.memtech.com/

[SDT]

I suspect that we will eventually end up with a biological computer. Don't laugh, the concept is being explored right now. .......
Just think of the damage a virus would cause!

[Morpheus1964]

The only major problem I have with the bio-computing testing I've seen so far is:

Can you imagine the cost of all that nutrient fluid to feed your components????

[SysOpt]

Maybe it can live on sugar water http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[AuraEdge]

Wouldnt your comp...uh...smell then?
Biological stuff that doesnt move around too much tends to develop a major stank.
lol
"YOU TAKE THE COMP OUT FOR A WALK!"
"BUT ITS YOUR TURN!!"

[seti]

Yeah I'm not to crazy about having to clean up after my computer.

I wonder if you'd have to let it outside or if it would be smart enough to use a litter box?


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The IW-L800 combines the technology of that self-cleaning litter box you've seen on tv with our award winning IW800 series, to supply you with uninterupted power computeing useing todays newest biological hardware.

[This message has been edited by seti (edited 04-02-2000).]

[hd581]

I'll settle for about 128 MB of Non-Volatile RAM. Imagine being able to remove all power to your computer in 1 instant, then suddenly restoring it and your computer just sitting there like nothing happened. Like a light bulb. That would be extremely important in PDA's. No battery power is necessary to maintain saved data.

[Axel]

Well - I went looking for prices - $16,500.00 is about the price I found for 3 GB of storage - - ahhhhh - what's $5300.00 a GB - after all - the access speed is killer - sounds like something Bill would load his smart-house software into........

a SCSI array - RAID 5 with 7 of these drives - with the CPU and RAMBUS memory on it - that's a 140,000.00 PC - wow - the government must have tons of these.....