Scientists use heat to store data on magnetic hard drive

A multinational team of scientists have discovered a new method to store data magnetically that is hundreds of times faster than current hard drives are capable of. Data is stored on…

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Another new and exiting technology that most likely won't make it to the market.

Typo: *exciting

Why embed the laser directly on the read head ? I believe a mirror would make it much lighter with a laser at the base of the actuator arm.

"Why embed the laser directly on the read head ? I believe a mirror would make it much lighter with a laser at the base of the actuator arm." ... or perhaps a tiny fibre optic tube.

Could they make a very long laser, so that all parts of the disk(that are under the line of lights) can be read and written to at the same time if needed. It would make striping your HD useless.. and speed up access times yes?

as soon is this is mass produced for consumers, im investing all of my moneyz.

I assume you think the laser wouldn't damage the fiber optic's.

Yeah, me too; I'm selling my house right now XD

it only took Blu Ray 14 years to get to market.. I'm sure we'll se this .. maybe in 20.

C'mon, now. Don't be so sinical. :-(

Typo: *Damned cynical. ;-)

Am I correct in assuming this won't make read speeds any faster?

I agree with that assumption since they are recording via magnetism thus they need another way to read it.