Source : EngadgetAccording to the site The Future Of Things, in five years time one could witness a resurgence of the traditional hard drives (having been put to death by the SSD) thanks to the laser.
The story goes back to 2006 when scientists discovered that under certain conditions a laser could modify the polarity of a magnet. Even though the idea to use this process to store data was immediately considered, many technological obstacles presented themselves. Since the majority have now been solved, the article estimates that in 5 years the first products could arrive.
Freed from their mechanical play-back heads, these disks could see their performances increasing in a very significant way, the whole being related to the capacities of the laser.
Initially, the picosecond laser could already do wonders, bu
