New York, April 04, 2004
Researchers have designed a new heat-sensitive sensor
to detect computer hard drive failures. The Carnegie Mellon Critter
Temperature Sensor -- about the size of a dime -- attaches to a desktop
computer. It is deployed across the Carnegie Mellon campus to monitor
university computers.
The researchers report that the amount of new words,
sounds, and pictures stored on hard drives has almost doubled in the
past three years.
In global-climate data storage alone, the volume of
recorded information is expected to soar from 2 billion gigabytes in
the year 2000 to 15 billion gigabytes in 2010