Purofsky's eyes tracked the glitter of rays glancing off spinning disks.
She gestured toward the recorded image of pulleys, leather straps, and spinning disks.
That is not to say, however, that hologram storage will always rely on spinning disks.
Uriel also has a useless pastime, that room full of spinning disks.
The researchers said the technology could work 10,000 times faster than today's hard disk drives, which store data as magnetic signals on spinning disks.
Instead, small control surfaces were placed at the rear of the missile with spinning disks on their outer surface; these are known as rollerons.
Flash drives have no moving parts, of course; they store their data in chips, not spinning disks.
He looked out through the darkened glass to the cavernous room beyond, to the banks of spinning disks.
Most of them shot spinning disks, crosses, or small boomerangs of thin steel.
The result is that some disk jockeys who gave up records for tape are spinning disks again - floppy ones.