why no mention of Everspin?
they seem to have actual working MRAM, used by LSI and Dell. Unless it is no longer used or for some other reason "does not count" ?
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Wednesday 18th March 2015 19:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: why no mention of Everspin?
They have working MRAM, but it is in megabit densities per chip. They are 'working on' gigabit densities per chip, but with other technologies moving to terabit densities per chip (already there if you count stacking) it isn't really competing in the general purpose storage market with flash and the other contenders mentioned.
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Wednesday 18th March 2015 22:37 GMT Richard 12
Re: Open question...
A disc doesn't have to write a full block, it's the file systems that do that.
Not all file systems use blocks, and those that do generally allow you to choose the block size if you want a different tradeoff between storing the location of the data and the data itself.
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Thursday 19th March 2015 01:22 GMT nerdbert
Re: Open question...
Actually, you do have to write a full block in a disk drive, like it or not. Parity and error correction bits are spread throughout the sector in a disk drive, which means if you were to attempt to change less than a block you'd destroy the ECC, munge the SOVA, and corrupt the detectors. You could modify the file system interface to hide the fact that you're not writing a complete sector, but the drive itself has to write a complete sector.
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