{"id":123504,"date":"2021-06-07T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/high-density-hard-drive-packed-with-graphene-stores-10-times-the-data"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:22:50","slug":"high-density-hard-drive-packed-with-graphene-stores-10-times-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/high-density-hard-drive-packed-with-graphene-stores-10-times-the-data","title":{"rendered":"High-density hard drive packed with graphene stores 10 times the data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-density-hard-drive-packed-with-graphene-stores-10-times-the-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that graphene-enhanced hard drives can store data at ten times the density of existing HDDs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By leveraging the wonder material graphene, a group at the University of Cambridge is claiming an advance in data storage that resembles more of a leap than a step forward. The new design unlocks higher operating temperatures for hard disk drives (HDDs) and with it, unprecedented data density, which the team says represents a ten-fold increase on current technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In a HDD, data is written onto fast-spinning platters by a moving magnetic head. Special layers called carbon-based overcoats (COCs) protect these platters from mechanical damage and corrosion during operation, though these can only perform within a certain temperature range and also take up a lot of space.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge researchers were able to replace the COCs used in commercial HDDs with between one and four layers of graphene, a material that is a single layer of carbon atoms with incredible strength and flexibility, among other highly-valued properties. The thinness of the graphene enabled significant space savings but also outperformed current COCs in preventing mechanical wear, reduced corrosion by 2.5 times and also offered a two-fold reduction in friction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that graphene-enhanced hard drives can store data at ten times the density of existing HDDs. By leveraging the wonder material graphene, a group at the University of Cambridge is claiming an advance in data storage that resembles more of a leap than a step forward. The new design unlocks higher operating temperatures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}