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Transport properties

Transport properties

Tera-byte disk drives

17 Mar 1998

The Winchester hard drive may have had its day. Steven Morton has developed a new storage device which uses dielectric components instead of magnetic films. Such a drive could store tera-bytes of information.

The device works by storing the data as regions of electric charge. The charge is trapped within a t

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