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 massively ...

There are many urban legends about computers, and while some might be true, others lack any real foundation. One we've been hearing for decades is the claim that magnets can damage electronics, and ...

How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally ...

For about ten years, magnetic skyrmions—particle-like, stable magnetic whirls that can form in certain materials and possess fascinating properties—have been a focus of research: easy to control ...

In a recent article in Acta Materialia authors from Seagate, NIMS and Tohoku University demonstrated two-layer heat assisted magnetic recording. The research team combined experimental measurements as ...

Computers and smartphones have different kinds of memory, which vary in speed and power efficiency depending on where they are used in the system. Typically, larger computers, especially those in data ...

A hard drive with its internal components visible - Suwan-Studio/Shutterstock There are many urban legends about computers, and while some might be true, others lack ...