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Re: cksla post# 4034

Monday, 07/09/2001 7:29:08 PM

Monday, July 09, 2001 7:29:08 PM

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Just an IBM reminder:

"AFC media solves this problem. The ultra-thin ruthenium layer forces the adjacent layers to orient themselves magnetically in opposite directions. The opposing magnetic orientations make the entire multilayer structure appear much thinner than it actually is. Thus small, high-density bits can be written easily on AFC media, but they will retain their magnetization due to the media's overall thickness.

With AFC media, 100-gigabit data density could allow the following capacities within two years:

Desktop drives -- 400 gigabytes (GB) or the information in 400,000 books;

Notebook drives -- 200 GB, equivalent to 42 DVDs or more than 300 CDs;

IBM's one-inch Microdrive -- 6 GB or 13 hours of MPEG-4 compressed digital video (about eight complete movies) for handheld devices."

(or 150-200 hours of audio ; - )




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