Nanotube Lube Replenishment for Massive Drives

PetManimal writes "Techworld reports that Seagate has just patented something called 'Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording,' which features nanotechnology and could lead to a 1.46TB 2.5-in. drive. The article says 'Storing data properly in extremely small areas requires the magnetic material to be heated during the writing phase, but this causes the lubricant film deposited on top of the magnetized recording layer to evaporate. Seagate's patent resolves this problem by having a reservoir inside the disk casing that contains nanotube-based lubricant. Some of this is periodically pumped out as a vapor and deposited on the surface of the disk, replenishing the evaporated lubricant.'"

Comments

good idea!

[gEvil (beta)]

Some of this is periodically pumped out as a vapor and deposited on the surface of the disk, replenishing the evaporated lubricant.

Hey, I could use some of this this! Oh wait...it says disk...

Re:good idea!

[op12]

Yeah, you probably read 2.5in and made a quick logical jump.

...I couldn't help myself - you left the door wide open on that one.

Re:good idea!

[gEvil (beta)]

Hey, they don't call it a nanotube for nothin'...

Lube......replenishment you say?

[LordPhantom]

Lube replenishment?
For.... massive drives?
Some headlines just write themselves. And don't mod me down, you were thinking about how cool it would be to have a peripheral that would do that - this is slashdot, don't lie!

Re:Lube......replenishment you say?

[russ1337]

I can see it now...

Tech guy: "Your hard drive is out of oil"

Customer: "what the f*&k? Pull the other one.."

Tech guy:"Yeah, I'm gonna have to take it into the shop and give it an oil change, you know, new nano-tubes... "

Customer "Get the flock outa here and dont come back.... oil... nano.. WTF.."

Re:Lube......replenishment you say?

[TubeSteak]

Tech guy: "Hey, in just the last five years the internet upgraded from nanotubes to fullsize tubes. Look how much faster the internet is and I can upgrade the nanotubes in your hard drive to match"
 

/Note to russ1337: Always upsell the customer.

KY

[tedgyz]

Can I get the KY Jelly version to store all my pr0n?

Re:KY

[tedgyz]

Oh wait, this is slashdot, I'm probably in the 0.01% of people here who get laid.

Use of your favorite lube does not necessarily imply that you got laid. :-)

Re:Precisely timed warranties

[amliebsch]

These things would come with probably extremely toxic non-refillable containers that are guaranteed to be emptied out at the most inopportune moment.

You're not thinking like a businessman. The drives will be cheap - cheaper than the competition, anyways. Enough to make it look like a good deal, anyways. It's the semimonthly proprietary branded cartridges of drive oil that will cost a small fortune...

Vaporware?

[Gates82]

No release date yet, so can we classify this as vaporware?

--
So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?

Yuck....

[tktk]

Digital pron? Check
1.46 TB? Check
Lube Replenishment ? Check

Ok, confession time. Who's already masturbating to this article?

Re:Yuck....

[tgd]

I read Slashdot for the pictures.

When you have a HAMR ...

[cylcyl]

everything starts to look like it needs a Nano Assisted Information Lubricant

Modern "Hard Disks";

[Chonine]

So, first you "get perpendicular",

Then, you "get lubricated".