But the smaller magnets get, the more unstable they become; their magnetic fields tend to flip ... used their single-atom magnets to make an atomic hard drive. The rewritable device, made from ...

While solid-state/flash – which stores data on chips – is the most common storage today for laptops, tablets, and smartphones, traditional spinning (magnetic) hard drives like the BarraCuda ...

Hard drives store data on discs coated with a metallic film divided into tiny magnetic regions, each of which stores a single bit – the more regions you can squeeze on to a disc, the bigger the ...

At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have ...

Hard drives still need to up their game to stay in play. That’s where Heat-Assist Magnetic Recording, or HAMR, comes in. This is where the disk is heated to super-high temperatures for short ...

As SSDs have gotten ever cheaper, the appeal of traditional magnetic hard drives has waned. Well, for gamers if not some industrial scale storage applications. That's remained true even with flash ...

In an age of cutting-edge artificial intelligence chips, magnetic hard drives don’t exactly fire up the imagination. But old tech sometimes finds new ways to stick around. About 85% of data in ...