University of York scientists in hard drive breakthrough (From York Press)

University of York scientists develop hard drive that writes using heat

8:24am Wednesday 8th February 2012 in Education news

SCIENTISTS from the University of York have helped develop a new way of recording information, using only heat.

It is hoped the discovery will make future hard drive technology faster and more energy-efficient.

York physicist Thomas Ostler said: “This revolutionary method allows the recording of terabytes (thousands of gigabytes) of information per second, hundreds of times faster than present hard drive technology. As there is no need for a magnetic field, there is also less energy consumption.”

The results of the research, which involved an international team of scientists, are reported in the February edition of Nature Communications.