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| Thread ID: 121319 | 2011-10-20 17:52:00 | 18TB HDD | Paul.Cov (425) | PC World Chat |
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| 1238863 | 2011-10-20 17:52:00 | from here: www.nzherald.co.nz SALTY MAGNETS: How big's that hard drive in your computer? 500 megabytes? A terabyte? That's nothing. Researchers at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have found out how to store 18 terabytes on a disc. A new electron-beam lithography process uses sodium chloride, or salt, to enhance the developer solution. The salt allows magnetic clusters to pack together more efficiently and with greater density. The new approach uses the same sort of equipment and technology currently used to create disk media, rather than requiring a whole new setup. A pinch of salt makes so many things better |
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| 1238864 | 2011-10-20 18:15:00 | Thats an interesting page, its amazing the rate of scientific break throughs being made these days. Not all that sure I would trust this though.. RADIO BRAKES: Computer scientists at Saarland University in Germany want to make bikes wireless by doing away with brake cables. Their calculations suggest their system would be 99.999999999997% safe. Sensors in the handgrip detect how tight you're holding on. Once a specific pressure threshold is crossed a radio signal is sent to a disc brake. If it's all configured correctly the bike can brake within 250 milliseconds. That means that at 30 Kph a cyclist has 2 metres to react to danger. Best hope you're not terrified by a situation that needs a burst of speed or those brakes may be a problem with you holding on too tight. Anything wireless goes down from time to time and sensors like those in cars fail fail also. Not sure I would like to be going down hill just at that moment !!:D |
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| 1238865 | 2011-10-20 20:03:00 | If you get it wet will the salt dissolve? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1238866 | 2011-10-20 20:13:00 | If you get it wet will the salt dissolve? good point gary |
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| 1238867 | 2011-10-20 22:41:00 | 18TB, I have a half empty 250GB. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1238868 | 2011-10-21 05:25:00 | I suspect that this may be just another "need a grant" university vapourware project that should be taken with a grain of salt. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1238869 | 2011-10-21 07:12:00 | Yeah, salt being corrosive, you do have to wonder about rapid oxidation in the presence of O2 or water. 18TB for the first hour, 12 TB the second hour, dead by the third hour of use. Sounds like it might be a Maxtor model! |
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