A new type of data storage technology, called phase-change memory, has proven capable of writing some types of data faster than conventional flash based storage. The tests used a hard drive based on prototype phase-change memory chips.
Disks based on solid-state, flash memory chips are increasingly used in computers and servers because they perform faster than conventional magnetic hard drives. The performance of the experimental phase-change disk drive, created by researchers at University of California San Diego, suggests that it won't be long before that technology is able to give computing devices another speed boost.
Researchers make storage disk with phase-change memory
Posted on Thursday, June 16 2011 @ 19:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TechnologyReview reports researchers at the University of California in San Diego have developed a prototype disk drive based on phase-change memory. Full details over here.