Researchers devise a way to store data on magnetic media using heat - SlashGear

Much research has been performed working on ways to improve the speed and power efficiency of data storage devices such as hard drives. A group of researchers from York University are working as part of an international team and the team has found that they can store information using heat instead of a magnetic field on a magnetic medium. The results is much faster and more power efficient storage of data than any traditional hard drive offers today.

According to a team member the new process allows the recording of terabytes of information each second, which is hundreds of times faster than the storage technology in use today. In a conventional hard drive an external magnetic field is applied to magnetic medium such as a spinning disc inside a traditional HDD. With the new method, the researchers use a short pulse of heat.
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