"The addition of lasers tends to improve almost anything" :)

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hitach-laser-hard-drives-hdd,9582.html#xtor=RSS-181

...Chambers

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Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "The addition of lasers tends to improve almost anything" :)

> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hitach-laser-hard-drives-hdd,9582.html#xtor=RSS-181

  I wonder if such a heating technology reduces the lifetime of the disk.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
>   I wonder if such a heating technology reduces the lifetime of the disk.

I'm guessing it's just pushing the material above the curie point without 
actually distorting it noticeably. (Or even making it closer.) At least 
that's what earlier heat-based magnetic disks did. I can't imagine it's 
trying to warp the material or something.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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