Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives

sciencehabit writes "Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks. But now physicists have created a new nanomaterial--an ultrathin 10-nanometer layer of nickel grafted onto a 100-nanometer-thick wafer of a substance called vanadium oxide--that dramatically changes how easily it flips its magnetic orientation when heated or cooled only slightly. The effect, never before seen in any material, could eventually lead to new types of computer memory."

Comments

Oh great

[ArcadeMan]

Something else that won't work properly in Canadian weather.

Re:Hard drives have no future.

[Joe_Dragon]

not in the sever room and they still have tape as well there.

Call it what it is.

[TechyImmigrant]

> a 100-nanometer-thick wafer of a substance called vanadium oxide

Why not say " a 100-nanometer-thick wafer of vanadium oxide" because a substance is called vanadium oxide when it is vanadium oxide.

Re:Future of hard drives is oblivion

[sconeu]

Power and heat. In a large server farm, those are king.

2.5s are less power hungry and generate less heat than 3.5s or 5.25s.