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Facts About Near Field RecordingNear Field Recording Technology:This new category of multipurpose mass storage technology enables a new class of rewritable mass storage products delivering a significant, sustainable capacity advantage at a lower cost-per-gigabyte than existing storage technologies. Near Field Recording will become the new benchmark for rewritable storage because of its high capacity and hard-disk-like performance. Development:TeraStor's Near Field Recording architecture is a combination of :
The TeraStor technology areal density advantage is achieved as a result of the combination of the ultra-small spot created by the SIL and the narrow bit cells resulting from the crescent recording. As an added benefit, since the TeraStor technology borrows from proven technologies used in hard disk drives and optical drives, it is able to decrease storage costs while maintaining the high performance levels required with today's applications. Patents:The flying head is covered by co-exclusive patent rights granted to TeraStor by Quantum Corporation. The basic technology was developed and patented by Digital Equipment Corporation (26 patents) and was acquired by Quantum as part of its acquisition of the Digital storage business. The fundamental SIL technology was originally developed and patented by Stanford University (three patents). Stanford has exclusively licensed this technology to TeraStor for storage products. TeraStor has several patents pending. Advantages of Near Field Recording:
Market Advantages and Positioning:TeraStor technology will revolutionize the data storage industry by combining tape and library-like capacities with hard disk-like performance, at an amazingly low cost. TeraStor technology is the mass storage solution that people have dreamed about but never thought they would live to see. For removable media applications, TeraStor technology will be the ideal solution for backup, archive, and data interchangeability applications. TeraStor technology products will be higher capacity, faster, and less expensive than today's optical drives. And when compared to tape, TeraStor technology products will feature fast random access performance and high reliability in products that will have higher capacities than all but a few of today's highest capacity tape products. For fixed media applications, TeraStor technology will set new benchmarks for the highest achievable mass storage capacities at an unheard-of low cost per gigabyte of storage. Our technology will make possible on-line solutions with fast random access where only near-line and off-line library applications were practical before. TeraStor technology products will also be form factor, platform, and operating system independent, and will be used within enterprises in computing environments all the way from large data centers and high powered workstations and networks to the individual desktop. Small businesses and home computer users will also realize the benefits of a multipurpose storage solution for a new generation of multimedia products and applications. And consumer electronic applications are sure to follow. Products:The first products based on TeraStor's technology were announced in June, 1998 . |
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