IBM seeks end to conventional HDDs

IBM, 1950s inventor of modern hard drives, is said to be working on a new technology to replace their creation.

Saving files to memory is something that's supposed to be mostly invisible for the end user. We don't need to think about it; it just has to work. But whether it's a solid-state or hard disk drive, conventional storage solutions have their limitations -- namely, speed, rewritability and durability. A team at IBM Research's Almaden facility in California has a cure for all of that and it's called "racetrack memory."

The new technology is said to be far faster than solid state, and far more durable.