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Heat-based Recording Could Boost Magnetic Drive Speed, Performance |
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 |
Magnetic drives have been the mainstream data storage medium for over a decade now, and latest technological breakthrough allows these drives to store terabytes of data. Nevertheless, an international team led by the University of York in the UK has further revolutionized these drives, in which their research suggests that they could boost the magnetic drive’s speed and performance, simply by applying heat on the drive.
The researchers use ultra-short heat pulses to achieve the feat, in which by applying heat the right way, the researchers are able to record terabytes of data per second on the drives, and such methods also boost the energy efficiency of the hard drive too. Well, such technology might take sometime to reach mainstream applications, but perhaps we’ll be seeing more magnetic-cum-heat hard drives in the future?
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