Talk:IBM Millipede

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The section on Usage Scenarios, especially the paragraph on "high capacity hard drives" is utter speculation and should be deleted. [If you think it isn't speculation, provide a reference.] The reason why millipedes are interesting for replacing hard drives is because they have higher data densities, faster data access times, lower power requirements, and higher reliability. It is unlikely that one would spin the mems surface as this would increase power requirements, decrease reliability, etc. http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/~darrell/Papers/MASCOTS-Hong-04.pdf

Chuck Simmons 19:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I've seen this claim before as well, although I do not have a ref. The idea would be that a single set of cantilevers could operate the entire array, thereby lowering costs. Operating speeds would be reduced as compared to a full XY array, but it would still be (theoretically) faster than a hard drive because it would be able to read all the tracks at the same time, more like a drum. Maury 13:44, 30 September 2006 (UTC)