Traditional hard drives are attain a content wall — they simply ca n’t physically suit any more datum onto their disc . However , a investigator at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering ( IMRE ) has discovered a way to importantly sextuple that capacity — using common table salt .
Current data storage technology relies on an raggedly - distributed cluster nanoscopic charismatic grains — each about 7 nanometers wide — to store a exclusive bit of data point , result in a maximum entrepot denseness of about 1 Tbit per platter . By integrating Sodium Chloride ( NaCl aka board salt ) into the platters , research worker Dr. Joel Yang find that a single minute of data can instead be stored on a individual 10 nm metric grain of salinity rather than on the multiple - caryopsis clusters , thereby increase the potential storehouse density to 3.3TB / inch squared and the total capacity of a plate thrust to 18 Tb .
Dr. Yang hop-skip to first further expand drive capacities to 6TB / sq in before aiming for a humongous 10TB / sq in solution — roughly 54 Tb of internal storage . telling , indisputable , but does anybody actually own 50 TB of anything that is n’t porn ? I sleep together I do n’t .
[ Institute of Materials Research and EngineeringviaPhysorgviaGeek.com ]
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