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HRDs Faster Than SSDs and HDDs Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Computer Technology   
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British researchers may have created the evolutionary step between current hard drives and solid state disks. Called the Hard Rectangular Drive (HRD), this new device primarily consists of three components: a double-sided "platter" of magnetic material mounted between two laminate read-write "heads" like a thin sandwich. All three components--joined by additional sets of three above and below--are lubricated and housed within in a standard 3.5-inch drive casing. (source: tomshardware.com)
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