Someone sent me this earlier:
IBM is extending the use of its "pixie dust" technology to a new line of
high-capacity drives to be announced Wednesday. Technically called
antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media, so-called "pixie dust" introduces
a thin layer of the element ruthenium onto the disks inside hard drives,
where data is stored. AFC disk densities are expected to reach as high as
100 gigabits per square inch by 2003, which translates to hard drive
capacities of 400 GB for desktop drives, 200 GB for notebooks and 6 GB for
IBM's one-inch Microdrive.
IBM is extending the use of its "pixie dust" technology to a new line of
high-capacity drives to be announced Wednesday. Technically called
antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media, so-called "pixie dust" introduces
a thin layer of the element ruthenium onto the disks inside hard drives,
where data is stored. AFC disk densities are expected to reach as high as
100 gigabits per square inch by 2003, which translates to hard drive
capacities of 400 GB for desktop drives, 200 GB for notebooks and 6 GB for
IBM's one-inch Microdrive.
