New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 8, 2012 @02:37AM from the sharks-in-my-drives dept.

MrSeb writes "Hold onto your hats: Scientists at the University of York, England have completely rewritten the rules of magnetic storage (abstract; full paper paywalled). Instead of switching a magnetic region using a magnetic field (like a hard drive head), the researchers have managed to switch a ferrimagnetic nanoisland using a 60-femtosecond laser. Storing magnetic data using lasers is up to 1,000 times faster than writing to a conventional hard drive (we're talking about gigabytes or terabytes per second) — and the ferrimagnetic nanoislands that store the data are capable of storage densities that are some 15 times greater than existing hard drive platters. Unfortunately the York scientists only detailed writing data with lasers; there's no word on how to read it."

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write only media FTW! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-08 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Who needs to read data back anyway?
1. Re:write only media FTW! by The+MAZZTer · 2012-02-08 03:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Let me guess... you set up customer complaints to get filed in /dev/null too?
At last! by undulato · 2012-02-08 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

A future-proof storage medium.
Re:omg by Ihmhi · 2012-02-08 03:17 · Score: 5, Funny

1) Western Digital licenses this technology.
2) WD releases a new model, the WD Shark. A "Now with LASERs!" starburst graphic adorns the front of the box.
3) Profit!

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Re:Cryogenic data storage by BigSes · 2012-02-08 06:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Walt: "Are all the Jews gone?" Scientist: "No." Walt: "Put me back in."