(Almost) indestructible storage of the future

Darius Chang | Dec 19, 2008

With no moving parts, one of the key advantages of solid-state drives have been the fact that they are hardier than their mechanical cousins. But research is underway which will make current storage devices seem positively fragile.

Created from the same element as diamond, graphene was demonstrated by researchers to not only store more information for the same given area, but is able to withstand temperatures of up to 200 degrees celsius. The only problem is that graphene has low data access speeds, but scientists are confident that this issue can be overcome in the future. So if data archiving gets you hot under the collar, then keep an eye out for these (almost) indestructible storage devices.

Via ComputerWorld

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