18.06.2009 14:36 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

DataSlide's Hard Rectangular Drive set to revolutionize storage with diamonds, become girl's best friend

Ready to have your storage world rocked again? It seems like we're all just getting up to speed on SSDs and their, erm, unique behavior, but the upstart DataSlide pledges to make all that as obsolete as last year's platters. The company is developing what it calls "Massive 2D Parallel Storage Technology," which effectively takes the spinning disk of a standard HDD and turns it into a two-sided rectangular plate. That plate then slides in between two surfaces containing arrays of read/write heads, one head per sector. With no arms to zip around DataSlide is projecting up to 160,000 operations per se

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