NRAM - The New Hard Drive Technology That Will Revolutionize the Computer World

Have you guys been noticing how computer hardNRAM in theory can operate at a much better
drive prices have been going down very much lately.efficiency than DRAM and it will be much less dense
Though there are quite a few factors that are thethan DRAM and eventually much less expensive.
causes for this such as the current recession that weImagine having an instant on computer where you
are and the technology keeps improving but therejust push the on button and your computer is
are also other technologies on the horizon that couldpowered up right there on the spot without waiting
revolutionize our drive technology to the point that10 to 30 seconds or even a minute for this to
current hard drives available today could becomehappen.
obsolete.Imagine being able to store hundreds of terabytes of
Here I will talk about one major technology thatinformation on your hard drive. The possibilities to this
could revolutionize the computer industry just astechnology and to the amount of memory that your
much or even more than the Internet revolution didcomputer can store in its hard drives is almost
during the late 1990s. The new hard drive technologylimitless. The low energy needed to power up and to
that I am talking about is called NRAM. NRAM orkeep the NRAM device going is even much less than
nonvolatile random access memory is a hard driveflash memory and this is another area that the NRAM
technology that is based on mechanical position oftechnology can enter into. Imagine being able to take
carbon nano tubes that are deposited on smallan MP3 device as small as your hand with you
substrates, and because the NRAM technology isanyplace you go that has a 3 TB storage capacity.
based on small size nanotubes this will allow you toThe marketing capacity for this technology is in the
carry a huge amount of memory in a very smallhundreds of billions of dollars and could reach into the
space. The current company that is developing thetrillions of dollars later on. NRAM is a computer hard
NRAM technology is called Nantero.drive technology revolution that is waiting to happen.
Now, besides the difference in size between theNow whether it happens in a few years or in five
nano tubes and what DRAM (DRAM has a minimumyears this will be the most exciting new technology in
size limit that it can be built to) currently has to offerthe computer hard drive sector that has ever come
there is also an added benefit that NRAM has overabout. Nantero has attracted all the big names in the
DRAM in that DRAM requires a certain amount ofcomputing industry and technology including HP, LSI
power to refresh it, while NRAM does not requireand ON semiconductor. All of these major technology
any power source at all to refresh its memory evenguys are either looking into experimenting with NRAM
after the power source that is required to refresh itin their labs are actually trying to produce the chips
is removed.themselves. It seems to me now that Nantero will
Another energy-saving benefits to NRAM as opposedprobably license the technology out to big companies
to DRAM is that the power that is needed to writelike these.
to the device used is much lower than it would beI can't wait for this technology to hit the market as I
for DRAM. The RAM has to build up a charge on itsthink it will revolutionize the way we store computer
plates to get powered up. Most people will not noticememory in a way that we are not currently used to
this but this is a tremendous energy saving benefitsdoing. The energy savings of this hard drive
that will cut down on the amount of electricitytechnology couldn't come at a better time in the
needed to not only power up our computers but toworld that is energy starved World.
keep them turned off.