After the perpendicular technology, there is another advancement in hard drives technology.
On a very interesting news, Ars Technica reported that researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands were able to achieve a much faster perfoming drive using laser beams to transfer data on a magnetic hard drive at speeds of up to 40 femtoseconds per bit, i.e. about 100 times faster than currently available HDDs.
This new technology is able to increase the speed of data storage, but it has no potential to increase also drive capacity. Of course, this is only an experimental technology and there are some not yet solved issues, but it seems really promising.
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