Can someone smarter at physics than I am explain how this works?
The article specifically suggests use in hard drives, but how soon could this realistically be used in commercial hard drives?
The article specifically suggests use in hard drives, but how soon could this realistically be used in commercial hard drives?
I assume though, that it might be used in e.g. CERN, where they need to store a ridiculous amount of data in very short time. Or similar activities where the write speeds are the limiting factor.
I don't think there are going to be a ton of applications for this hardware, but it'll be great for those edge cases where you absolutely need that sort of data rate.
Use RAID-1 (mirroring) and have lots of disks in parallel. You can combine them for great read speed, but you still have to write to every one of them so writing is not improved.
If your write speed was much faster than read then this would work perfectly.
It would also find applications in things like data archiving, warehousing. Or buffering huge amounts of data for later processing (like the large hadron collider).