Carbon Ring Storage Provides 1,000 Times Higher Memory Density

There is terrifying news. We've almost maxed out the density limits of magnetic memory, as it becomes increasingly harder to shrink the necessary grains in the process. In simple terms, we’ve maxed out on the amount of memory a computer can have. Don’t start fretting about this, because there may be a solution. A team of German scientists, have been doing more than just standing around and watching this happen. Colbalt (an element responsible for keeping you’re data safe) usually needs around 50,000 atom fleet for each grain, but boffins from Dresden have found a way to shrink that to 50 (that's good). Without the geeky technological details, attaching carbon rings to the cobalt reproduces the requisite hexagonal close packed structure, which leads to reduced space requirements. If this is viable, we can expect another race which hard drive makers try to make the competitions capacity look measly. The details are here.