New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard Drives

azav writes "We all know about Moore's Law as it applies to chip speed but little attention is publicly made to the challenges of increasing speed in hard drives. A recent discovery in polyester (yes, polyester, you disco baby) lubricants will allow for faster and longer lasting hard drives."

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Bearings

[stimpleton]

The oddest materials pop up for load bearing duties.
"Felt bearings" have been used in the automotive industry for years.

Especially in rack and pinion steering system where lateral forces are not so high.

Lubricants for the felt material include oil and graphite powder, or run dry.

While more durable bearings such as needle roller, bronze sleeve, and teflon bushings, may be the preference of performance applications, ease of fitment, damping ability, and cost, still ensures felt bearings are used today, both in automotive and other industrial machinery. It is very possible, you have owned a car with one or moore felt bearings somewhere in the steering system.

The properties of synthetic material as a bearing surface have been used and far back as 1950's(and maybe beyond).

Re:Wow...

[Jeremi]

I'm not usually one to laugh at blatant innuendo, but the first few times I heard that phrase being used, it absolutely cracked me up - not just for the phrase itself, but for the fact that no-one else seemed to get the joke

I'm told that Australians have a similar reaction when they hear people talking about getting "root access"...