Laser Hard Drives

Arstechnica has an article on a new laser hard drive that has been demonstrated, but it could take some time before we see these products on the shelf:

This is approximately 100x faster than our fastest current conventional drives and represents a potential breakthrough in hard drive technology. Numerous previous attempts have been made to utilize polarized laser light as a write mechanism, but all previous attempts have failed due to an improper mixture of magnetic alloys.

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