Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability)

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On May 17, 2005, at 09:15:52, Bill Davidsen wrote:
What would be ideal is some cache which didn't depend on power to maintain state, like core (remember core?) or the bubble memory which spent almost
a decade being just slightly too {slow,costly} to replace disk. There
doesn't seem to be a cost effective technology yet.

I've seen some articles recently on a micro-punchcard technology that uses grids of thousands of miniature needles and sheets of polymer plastic that can be melted at somewhat low temperatures to create or remove indentations in the plastic. The device can read and write each position at a very high rate, and since there are several thousand bits per position, with one bit for each needle, the bandwidth is enormous. (And it scales linearly with the size of the device, too!) Purportedly these grids can be easily built with slight modifications to modern semiconductor etching technologies, and the polymer plastic is reasonably simple to manufacture, so the resultant cost per device is hundreds of times cheaper than today's drives. Likewise, they have significantly higher memory density than current hardware due to
fewer relativistic and quantum effects (no magnetism).


Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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