Windows 7 - Researchers Use Table Salt To Increase Hard Drive Density Six-Fold

Brink · 10-14-2011

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Think the 4TB hard drives hitting the market now are impressive? You’re right. But one group of researchers say that’s nothing compared to the storage capacities that could be unlocked using a new technique they’ve discovered. Dr Joel Yang and his team from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore claim that simply by adding table salt to an existing lithographic process, they have come up with a way of increasing the information density of HDDs six-fold. Basically, 6TB of info could fit onto today's 1TB platters.

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Corazon · 10-15-2011

Whoah!

Layback Bear · 10-15-2011

If this will be marketed I can see Cloud storage taking a big hit.

Corazon · 10-15-2011

What happens when you add salt to clouds? It rains, doesn't it?

Bearcatrp · 10-15-2011

Don't think they will sell it to consumers. They will price it out of consumers reach so they can stream everything to us. The cloud would take a big hit if we would get these.

Darkelk · 10-17-2011

Holy crap that sounds brilliant. For people who can pay what they want for it..

Zepher · 10-17-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Bearcatrp

Don't think they will sell it to consumers. They will price it out of consumers reach so they can stream everything to us. The cloud would take a big hit if we would get these.

The cloud is designed so you can access your data where ever you have internet access, what does having 17TB of storage at my home do for me when I am away from it? it's not easily accessed and if the machine crashes or loses power then I have no access at all to my data. (same can happen to the Cloud, but they have techs working to get it up asap, I'd have to physically go home and see what happened.)

Most people I know can't even fill up a 500GB hard drive.

Bertison · 10-18-2011

Did anyone read this part? -

<However, the number is a bit deceiving; while 3.3 terabit/sq. in. disks have been fabricated, the crew has “only” demonstrated data-storage capabilities in disks with 1.9 terabits/sq. in.>

What (exactly) will that mean?

Corazon · 10-18-2011

Means that they've made platters theoretically capable of holding 6TB each, but have only managed to actually write to and read from platters holding a little less than 4TB. So far.

lhorwinkle · 10-22-2011

Summary:
They're working on bigger drives.
But they've been doing that for 50 years.
So, how is this news?