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The Future of Data Storage
by Andrew Jennings
CIT 595, Spring 2007
Abstract: Computer users need to store more data every day. Businesses are required by law to hang
on to records for years to satisfy laws created in the wake of corporate scandals. Consumers are buying
more of their music and movies online and media providers are looking to push bandwidth heavy high
definition content to users' media devices. To store this torrent of data, old technologies will need to be
updated and radical new ideas will have to be brought from engineering labs to the market.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Revolutionary Random Access............................................................................................3
Perpendicular Storage vs. the Superparamagnetic Effect..........................................................................3
Micromechanical Storage: The Millipede..................................................................................................5
Blu Ray and HD DVD Vie for the Living Room.............................................................. ........................7
Holographic Storage Breaks into the Third Dimension...........................................................................10
Conclusion: More than Technology.........................................................................................................12
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................................13
Image Copyrights......................................................................................................................................14
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Introduction: Revolutionary Random Access
IBM introduced the first computer with a hard disk drive in 1956: the RAMAC 305. The drive
weighed a full ton, used a noisy air compressor to move a pair of read/write heads among its 50 platters,
and stored only 5 MB of data (Hoagland, 1871). Its full name revealed the technology that would make
RAMAC revolutionary: Random Access Method of Accounting and Control. RAMAC's read arm could
reach any bit of data in a short amount of time and didn't have to go through every bit between “here” and
“there” in order to do so. This random access was a huge breakthrough that brought data seek times
down to 600 milliseconds (IBM Archives). Before the introduction of the RAMAC, data was often stored
on reels of magnetic tape that needed to be wound to a specific point before data could be read. Seek
times for sequential access on a magnetic tape could be measured in seconds rather than milliseconds. If
a tape was fully wound and you wanted to read data at the end, you would have to wait until the entire
tape unspooled to do so. With random access, data became quickly accessible regardless of what had just
been read.
As the computer became ubiquitous in the modern world, hard drives have increased drastically in
speed and storage space while shrinking to pocket size. They still rely on the same principles that
RAMAC brought to the market fifty years ago: a read/write head gliding above platters coated in
magnetic material. Although RAMAC had only a pair of data reading heads, a modern hard drive will
have a pair floating on an arm between every two platters, each tied to the actuator that positions the
heads in parallel over a specific track. Data is read by examining the magnetic transitions among the
magnetic grains coating each platter.
Perpendicular Storage vs. the Superparamagnetic Effect
Continual improvements in the miniaturization and speed of the underlying mechanical devices that
make up the hard drive have allowed the number of bits contained within a drive to increase exponentially
(see Figure 1). But there is a limit to the amount of data that can be packed into a drive because of the
physical properties of the hard disk drive platter, the spinning disc that holds the magnetic bits that make
up data.
Data is stored on a hard drive in grains of magnetic material that are laid out on the platters. The
grains are distributed into “islands” of about a thousand grains, with each island making up a bit of
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information stored on a hard drive. The read and write heads on each actuator arm of the hard drive run
above these grains of magnetic material and detect their magnetic orientations, which represent their
status as storing a 1 or a 0. By making the grains of magnetic material smaller and creating more
sensitive read and write heads, manufacturers have been able to increase the number of bits stored on hard
drives. Current disk drives can use this longitudinal storage of grains to reach an areal density of 120
Gb/in2 (Currie et al., 153). RAMAC's disk drive had an areal density of 2 Kb/in2.
But there is a minimum size that each
magnetic grain cannot sink below if it is to
usefully hold a charge. As the grains get
shorter, they reach a point where the thermal
energy around the platters is enough to flip
the magnetic orientation of a grain. This isthe superparamagnetic effect. One way to
get around this is using magnetic materials
that have a higher coercity, the resistance to
change in magnetization. Although such
materials are less likely to unexpectedly
change orientation, higher coercity also
makes reading and writing information moredifficult.
Another way to get around this
limitation is stacking up the data carrying
magnetic grains so they are magnetically
oriented perpendicular, rather than parallel,
to each platter. By orienting the data carrying islands this way, the volume of each magnetic unit is
increased and the superparamagnetic barrier is pushed back. Although the platters are using a thickercoating of magnetic material, it's possible to coat the surface area of the disk with more bits of
information. The platters are also specialized, with a soft magnetic underlayer that helps orient the
grains' charge vertically. Hitachi currently sells disk drives using this technology and believes that areal
densities using perpendicular recording can extend beyond 500 Gb/ in2 (Currie et al., 153).
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Figure 1: Areal Density Over Time
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Although the superparamagnetic barrier looms in the hard drive's future, perpendicular recording has
pushed it back so that manufacturers have more time to develop new technologies to replace (or
revolutionize) the hard disk drive. For example, IBM is using new platter materials to further push back
the barrier and research in “patterned media” may allow for hard drives that store a bit in a single grain of
magnetic material.
Micromechanical Storage: The Millipede
Another way to get around the superparamagnetic barrier is to use non magnetic materials to store
data. IBM is developing a storage device that employs heated, micromechanical cantilevers to jab tiny
pits into a polymer medium. Initial experiments with the cantilever technology happened in the early
1990s. Scientists were able to successfully write data with an areal density of 30 Gb /in2 by pulling the
tiny tip across a rotating circular medium (Vettiger et al, 2000, p 324). The density was impressive for the
time but read and write operations were slow with access to only one bit at a time. So scientists
developed a chip that can control an array of cantilevers for fast access in a small package. The
appearance of these tiny levers hanging from their controller gives the device its name: Millipede.
The Millipede uses technology developed for the atomic force microscope, a device that drags a tiny
cantilever over a surface to detect its shape. As the cantilever bounces through the peaks and valleys of
the material, its vertical movement is tracked by a photodiode that observers a laser reflecting off the end
of the cantilever (University of Bristol SPM). Although the Millipede uses micromechanical cantilevers
like the AFM, the storage device uses heat rather than light to detect the movement of the lever.
The Millipede's read/write mechanism contains a two dimensional array of cantilevers, each 70
micrometers long. Each lever has a writing tip, a point with a 2 micrometer base and an apex only 20
nanometers wide. These tips write on a three layer storage medium. The bottom of the medium is a base
of hard silicon to dissipate heat. On top of the silicon, a buffer layer of a soft polymer called
“photoresist” keeps the lever tips from reaching the hard silicon layer. The Millipede depends on
uniformity of the size of the writing tips for accuracy and contact with the silicon underlayer would wear
down the tips. The third layer is a coating of the polymer marked by the writing tips,
polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).
To write one bit of information, a lever is heated to 400o Celsius right above the melting point of the
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PMMA and pressed into the “sled” that holds the media. As the lever gets closer to the medium and
the tips makes surface contact, polymer melts and a tiny bit is formed. When enough heat has been
transferred from the lever to the storage media, that indicates a proper bit has been inscribed and the lever
is pulled away from the medium.
Reading data uses a similar heat detecting process. To read the data underneath the storage array,
each of the tips is heated to 350o, not hot enough to melt the medium. As the tips move over the storage
medium, the temperatures of the levers floating above the storage medium are monitored. As a tip dips
into a bit indentation, the amount of heat transferred from the lever to the medium will increase,
indicating that a mark representing a “1” is present.
Using these methods, scientists at IBM have been able to create patterns from bit indicators only
40nm in diameter, 100 nm apart.
Initial Millipedes had a data array of
only 5x5 levers but recently, 64x64
arrays of cantilevers have been
created, packing data with an areal
density of more than 1 Tb/in2 (IBM
Zurich Research Lab).
The Millipede manufacturing
process involves silicon etching and
surface micromachining, the same
methods used to make microchips.
The Millipede's basic shape is first
etched from a silicon wafer. Then layers of silicon are deposited onto the tips of the cantilevers and
etched into the writing tips. After the array is complete, the Millipede's data array is joined to the CMOS
circuits that control its mechanical movement. There are no additional wires needed to transfer electrical
signal through the Millipede because it's created from doped silicon.
The read/write part of the Millipede is attached to magnetic actuators that move it above the sled
containing the storage medium. The magnets keep the pieces together and also protect the Millipede
from vibration. The sled is moved along the X and Y axes to the proper position below the Millipede,
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Figure 2: The Millipede's data array moves along the X
and Y axes above the storage medium
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which can then read and write with its levers in parallel.
The Millipede's read and write speeds are based on the number of cantilevers contained in the storage
array. Each lever is currently capable of more than 1 Kb/s, meaning that a 64 x 64 array can do 4 Mb/s.
The speed limitation is not due to the movement of the levers or the data array but the cycle speed of the
electrical pulses used to heat the levers. Improvements to the Millipede design are aimed at reaching
megabit speeds per lever, enabling the device to reach data access speeds of gigabits per second.
One of the issues facing the Millipede project is the low tolerance for error when creating machines at
the micrometer level. Vettiger states that the Millipede is moving less than 1 micrometer above the media
sled. To ensure accurate reading and writing, the tips at the end of each cantilever must have a “tip
uniformity” of less than 500 nanometers. Although the Milllipede is accurate when all levers are in
working condition, prototypes may have between 20% and 40% damaged cantilevers. In addition to tip
non uniformity, many of these non working levers stem from problems with thermal expansion due to the
intense heat at which the Millipede is working.
Because the devices are so tiny, power consumption for heating the storage array is quite low. The
Millipede is manufactured using already existing processes so they will be manufactured at a relatively
low cost. This makes it an ideal storage device for watches, PDAs and other devices that currently depend
on bulky hard drives or expensive flash media for storage. IBM scientists have proposed to use the
Millipede in a Nanodrive, a centimeter sized device capable of holding a gigabyte of data (Vettiger et al,
2006, p 333). It's also possible to use the Millipede in larger storage devices by leveraging technology
existing in the hard drive, i.e., the Millipede could be used as a read/write head while a disc moved the
polymer coated medium underneath the write head (Vettiger et al, 2000, p 336). Whatever the Millipede
is used for, it's certain that this novel device will allow us to store more data than possible with a hard
drive by sidestepping the superparamagnetic limit.
Blu Ray and HD DVD Vie for the Living Room
One of the other common methods of storage is the optical disc. The CD, introduced in 1982 as a
music storage format, is one of the most popular formats of optical data storage. The CD ROM is capable
of storing 650 MB or 700 MB of data. The CD was succeeded by the DVD, capable of storing six times
the data (4.7 GB). DVDs can also contain two layers of information stored on each side of the disc for a
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grand total of 17.1 GB of storage.
Producers of high definition video decided that a new format was needed to bring their content to
consumers' living rooms. The original DVD standard was hammered out of compromises by the various
members of the DVD Forum. This time, the producers could not decide on a single format. Now there
are two incompatible contenders for the successor of the DVD: Blu Ray Disc (BD) and High Definition
Digital Versatile Disc (HDDVD). BD and HD DVD are both capable of holding a higher density of
information than the DVD due to the use of blue lasers (rather than red) used to read CDs and DVDs.
Information on a BD or HD DVD is stored in a spiral shape on the disc. The data spiral radiates from
the center of the disc toward the outer edge. If the disc contains a second layer, that spiral may start on
the outside of the disc so the laser lens pickup doesn't have to stop and move to the center of the disc
during a layer change. That makes it less noticeable to a movie watcher that the layer change occurred.
As the disc spins, the laser on the read head focuses a beam at the layer being read and a
photosensitive device looks for a reflection of the data from the disc. A reflection signifies a pit was
found, meaning a 1 signal. No reflection means the disc was not pitted at that particular spot, causing the
laser light to be deflected away from the reader, signifying a 0 bit. In this way, digital information can be
read from the disc.
On a factory pressed disc, the bottom layer of the disc is injection molded and contains a data spiral
written in bumps on the top of the plastic layer. A layer of aluminum is placed on top of the plastic, then
another layer of plastic and a label go on top of the aluminum. The reflective aluminum layer is what is
actually read by the laser. An optical pickup detects whether the laser lens hit a bump (actually seen as a
pit in the aluminum layer from the side of the disc the laser is on) or an absence of a pit (called a land).
The spindle rotates the disc as the laser lens pickup moves toward the end of the spiral, leading to a
stream of pits and lands that can be decoded as 0s and 1s and processed by a computer or video player.
Data can be written to a disc using the same equipment. Instead of an injection molded plastic layer
containing bumps, the writable media contains a layer of photosensitive dye under the aluminum layer. A
writing laser combines with the dye to create patches that take the place of the pits and lands in the
factory pressed disc. Reading the disc uses the same mechanism described above.
The most significant difference between next gen discs and previous generations is the color of laser
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used to read and write data. BD and HD DVDs use blue lasers, which have a shorter wavelength than the
red lasers used to read previous optical storage discs. This shorter wavelength means that the blue laser
has a narrower focus and is able to read smaller pits than a red laser (Piepenburg, 31). Therefore next gen
discs can be the same diameter as a DVD while having many more pits in the spiral track.
BD and HD DVD players use a different aperture width for the laser lens, leading to a disparity in
storage sizes for the two formats (Cyberlink). BD laser lenses have a numerical aperture of .85 while
HD DVD lenses are .65. A higher NA means the laser starts wider but spreads less as it travels. The
creators of the HD DVD wanted to manufacture the discs on current DVD pressing equipment. This lead
to the HD DVD having a plastic layer 0.6 mm thick, just like the DVD. The manufacturers of BD did not
bind themselves to the DVD manufacturing equipment and created discs with a bottom layer of only 0.1
mm. The thicker coating combined with the lesser NA means an HD DVD laser needs to focus on larger
pits than the BD's reader. This is why the BD stores more information than the HD DVD. A single
sided, single layer BD can contain 25 GB of data while a similar HD DVD can hold 15 GB of
information.
Specifications for HD content discs
HDDVD BluRay
Storage Space 15 GB per layer 25 GB per layer
Laser NA .65 .85
Track Pitch .40 micrometers .32 micrometers
Codecs MPEG2
MPEG 4 AVC
VC 1
MPEG 2
MPEG 4 AVC
VC 1
Sound Dolby Digital Plus,
DTS HD
Dolby Digital Plus,
DTS HD
Read Speed (1x) 32.4 Mb/s 36 Mb/s
Exclusive content Universal Sony, Fox, Disney,MGM, Lions Gate
Taken from official Blu Ray and HD DVD web sites
Blu Ray and High Definition DVD are both available for use as computer storage devices. Write
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once and rewritable discs are available. But until writable media drops in price, most consumers will
encounter BD and HD DVD as prerecorded media containing movies. Each of the formats has been
backed by a number of content producers, with Sony being one of the largest BD backers and Universal
Studios providing content exclusively for HD DVD. Part of the conflict will play out on the current
generation of video game consoles, with Sony using its PlayStation 3 as a Trojan horse to get Blu Ray
devices into homes and Microsoft releasing an add on HD DVD player for its Xbox 360 console.
Devices that read both formats are in the works but it's more likely that one format will come out ahead in
a few years and leave the other to become the Betamax of this generation of optical storage.
As Dipert points out in his article, there's also a possibility that consumers will choose neither. There
are many alternatives to watching high definition content that use current red laser DVDs. It's possible to
buy Windows MediaVideo encoded content on a DVD that's playable on a PC. Rather than filling more
space on a disc, content could be encoded in a space saving codec such as MPEG 4 or DivX. It's also
possible that another disc type, such as the Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) created in China, could take
market share from BD and HD DVD. Finally, consumers may not be ready for the expense involved in
upgrading their equipment to HD. Dipert mentions the often cited studies that claim people can't
distinguish high resolution content from low resolution on televisions below 50” anyway. So it's quite
possible that both high definition discs will go the way of the laserdisc and become a footnote in AV
history.
Holographic Storage Breaks into the Third Dimension
Holographic storage as a concept has been examined for decades but only recently has it become
commercially possible. InPhase, a spinoff of Lucent Labs, will likely be the first to market with their
Tapestry line of drives this year. They have managed to bring this product to market by developing a
special media that solves some of the problems encountered with earlier attempts at holographic storage.
Holographic storage is fundamentally different from other optical storage like the DVD because it
stores data throughout the medium instead of on a two dimensional surface. Rather than bouncing a laser
off a disc or reading from the surface of a platter, holographic devices shoot lasers through media to
create and read patterns. This allows for a density of information not possible with two dimensional
storage. The basic unit of data in holographic storage is called a page. A page can contain one million
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bits, arranged in a checkerboard like pattern. Pages are projected by shining a laser through a Spatial
Light Modulator that turns 0s and 1s into a pattern of lights different intensity. The SLM lets through a
beam of light containing the pattern of the data page – the data beam.
In addition to going through the SLM, the device's laser is split and aimed at a small mirror that
projects the beam into the media at an angle intersecting the data beam. This beam is called the reference
beam. The angle of the beams and their relation to the media will be the key to retrieving the page.
The reference beam and the data beam produced by the SLM intersect inside the media, combining to
create an interference pattern where they meet. The interference pattern is recorded by the photosensitive
media and becomes the representation of the data page on the media. To retrieve data, the reference beam
can be aimed at the media at the same angle. The reference beam, shining through the interference
pattern, will recreate the data beam on the
other side of the medium. The data hits a
charge coupled device (CCD), the light
sensing device at the heart of the digital
camera, which can translate the data beam
back into an array of digital bits.
By slightly changing the angle of the
reference and data beams, moving the media
or changing a beam's wavelength, overlapping
pages can be written throughout the medium.
In prototype devices, media filled with
“books” of 100 overlapping pages could store
data at 80 Gb/in2. InPhase has an eye on
improving that density by adjusting laser NA and wavelength to allow for books of more than 600 pages
and a density of 1600 Gb/in2 (Wilson et al, 35).
One of the initial problems with holographic storage was finding a proper medium. Initial polymers
reacted poorly to lasers and deformed, damaging the information stored in the media (Huang, 66).
InPhase claims to have avoided these issues by creating a “two chemistry” media that reacts correctly
when writing but stays stable during read operations. The Tapestry media is created from two polymers,
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Figure 3: Writing to holographic media
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one that keeps the disc stable and another that's photosensitive to record the holograms.
Because an entire megabit of data can be read in parallel, data retrieval from holographic media is
extremely fast. Seek times on the initial Tapestry drives are said to average 250ms and data transfer rates
should be 20 Mb/s. InPhase has created a roadmap (Wilson, 35) of technologies and is shooting for
eventual speeds of 120 Mb/s.
Conclusion: More than Technology
Those are just a few of the storage technologies we may see in the next few years. Despite each being
an advancement over current technologies in speed or space, there's no guarantee that any of them will
catch on enough to become as ubiquitous as the modern hard drive or the DVD. There's more to
technology than efficiency and design; there's marketing, price and ease of use. Whether these devices
become popular will likely depend more on advertisers than engineers but each is a fascinating way to
conquer the issues facing a world that needs to store an ever increasing number of 0s and 1s.
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