he key aspect of the new technology is that it does not require the data platter to be spun like conventional hard disk drives do. For a start this provides savings in power consumption and due to the use of magnetic recording media as found in hard disk drives should allow the hard rectangular drive (HRD) to be cheaper than an SSD or at least provide significantly more usable space for your money.
DataSlide proposes Hard Rectangular Drive
Posted on Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 3:24 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A company named DataSlide has presented a new type of mechanical HDD that could bring massive improvements in performance and power efficiency. More info at TPU.