{"id":72426,"date":"2017-09-08T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/how-to-store-data-on-magnets-the-size-of-a-single-atom"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:01:15","slug":"how-to-store-data-on-magnets-the-size-of-a-single-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/how-to-store-data-on-magnets-the-size-of-a-single-atom","title":{"rendered":"How to Store Data on Magnets the Size of a Single Atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2laKpYWIa5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Research and development is focused on developing new means of data storage that are more dense and so can store greater amounts of data, and do so in a more energy efficient way. Sometimes this involves updating established techniques: recently IBM announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/2\/16074568\/ibm-330-terabytes-record-uncompressed-data-cartridge-cartridge-tape\">new magnetic tape technology<\/a> that can store 25 gigabytes per square inch, a new world record for the 60-year-old technology. While current magnetic or solid-state consumer hard drives are more dense at around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3030642\/data-storage\/flash-memorys-density-surpasses-hard-drives-for-first-time.html\">200 gigabytes per square inch<\/a>, magnetic tapes are still frequently used for data back-up.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cutting edge of data storage research is working at the level of individual atoms and molecules, representing the ultimate limit of technological miniaturization.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/08\/28\/how-to-store-data-on-magnets-the-size-of-a-single-atom\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/08\/28\/how-to-store-data-on-m...ngle-atom\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research and development is focused on developing new means of data storage that are more dense and so can store greater amounts of data, and do so in a more energy efficient way. Sometimes this involves updating established techniques: recently IBM announced a new magnetic tape technology that can store 25 gigabytes per square inch, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72426","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72623,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72426\/revisions\/72623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}