SONY BOFFINS have been working in the labs, late some nights, and their eyes beheld some frightful sights. Well, frightful to their rivals.
Because they’ve crudely cobbled together another monster. This basic technology for a next-generation hard disk (as the Nikkei.net describes it) can store One terabit of porn (or any other data) per square inch. That’s five times the density of existing hard disks! So your notebook could store 150 hours of high-definition video.
Having won the hard fought format war with Toshiba over next-generation DVDs (hip hip, Blu Ray!) Sony won’t change its strategy on Blu-ray disc optical media any time soon.
But storage capacity is a beast that needs constantly feeding. If you don’t keep finding new ways to expand it, it’ll turn on you and smash up your laboratory. Metaphorically speaking. Toshiba has already promised to develop a high capacity flash media storage product to satisfy our endless need for storage.
But how good is this new invention? It’s a basic technique for writing data based on magneto-optical hybrid recording. Data bits are written to disk medium using laser light concentrated on an almost microscopic area of disc. So it makes traditional storage more efficient. Blimey, is that it?
We could have thought of that.
They plan further developments – Oh, OK, fair enough, we couldn’t do that – to fine tune the reading and writing of data to disks.
Sony is looking for a development partner on this one. µ
