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CIO July 15, 2003 John Edwards	Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price.
PC World April 8, 2002 Kuriko Miyake	Toshiba Pushes Hard Disk Density Higher Vendor claims its 60GB drives will hit the highest capacity yet...
PC World August 22, 2001 Martyn Williams	Fujitsu Smashes Hard Disk Density Record New technology could allow notebook computer drives to store more than 100GB of data within the year...
Technology Research News October 17, 2005	Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Eric Smalley	Device demos terabit storage Researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation in Japan have found a way to store huge amounts of data after figuring out how to make many tiny, inverted dots in a thin film of metal and determining how to sense the state of each dot.
Popular Mechanics January 2010 Tyghe Trimble	3 Next-Gen Fixes to the Coming Hard-Drive Crisis Hard drives could reach their limits by 2015 unless researchers can find new ways to cram more information onto their disks.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Material helps bits beat heat Researchers have discovered a way to shore up magnetic energy that promises bits only a few nanometers across -- the span of a few dozen hydrogen atoms. The method could make it possible to store more than a trillion bits per square inch, according to the researchers.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
CIO December 15, 2003 Christopher Lindquist	Upright Data Storage The engineers charged with finding ever more clever ways to stuff extra bits into a given square inch of magnetic platter are beginning to encounter the physical limits of current techniques. New advances in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology, however, may continue the density trend.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Bumpy surface stores data Cramming more data into a given storage device is all about making bits that are extremely small and consistently spaced. Using individual molecules to store bits would be a tremendous leap forward. One molecule gaining researchers' attention is rotaxane.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Eric Smalley	Memory Stores Three Bits in One Researchers have built a prototype molecular memory device that stores three bits in the same spot, multiplying storage density without increasing the device footprint.
Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Science Behind Your Hard Drive Scoops Physics Nobel The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg, for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance.
PC World June 18, 2001 Sean Captain	Maxtor Rolls Out 80GB and 100GB Hard Drives Technology stretches single-platter storage from 20GB to 40GB on new DiamondMax drive...
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley	Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Hot tip boosts disk capacity Many research efforts are aimed at increasing the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of magnetic media like computer disks. One challenge is making smaller magnetic bits that are stable at room temperature.
PC Magazine October 1, 2010 Matthew Murray	Will Toshiba's Bit-Patterned Drives Change the HDD Landscape? Toshiba's latest breakthroughs in bit-patterned media promise areal densities of up to 2.5 Tb per square inch -- which could lead to 25TB 3.5-inch drives.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Nanotube Transistor Has Power Aiming to make electrical componets faster, researchers are working to make components from carbon nanotubes, which are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be smaller than a nanometer in diameter.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Terabits In The Vortex Consider a hard drive that can store thousands of movies per square inch. Is it possible?
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Prachi Patel	Laser-Heated Hard Drives Could Break Data Density Barrier Scientists at Seagate Technology show that heat-assisted magnetic recording could break the looming terabit-per-square-inch data limit
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.
PC World September 2001 Sean Captain	Hard Drives: 100GB & Larger Desktop drives have reached 100GB, and larger models are waiting in the wings, but technical limits stand in the way...
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility.
Reactive Reports Issue 73 David Bradley	Super Insulator An international team of scientists has created a material that at close to absolute zero has an electrical resistance 100,000 times higher than its room temperature value.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003	Nanotube transistors make memory Researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea and the Chonbuk National University in Korea have laid the groundwork for making nonvolatile computer memory out of carbon nanotubes.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Prefab key to molecular memory Nano-devices promise to use molecules as super-fast computer circuits, store fantastic amounts of information in a minuscule area and sense minute amounts of chemicals and biological materials. Researchers have brought these possibilities a step closer.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al.	Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage
InternetNews January 4, 2008 Judy Mottl	Victory For Flash as Hitachi Cans Tiny Hard Disks Hitachi is kissing production of its smallest hard drive disks goodbye, citing poor sales and the increasing shift to flash technology when it comes to demand for mobile device storage.
InternetNews January 5, 2004 Clint Boulton	First 2.5-inch SATA Drives On the Way Fujitsu's 2.5 inch mobile hard drives are geared for laptops in the early stages.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Square Rings Promise Reliable MRAM Researchers are working on magnetic random access memory chips that hold as much data as standard electronic memory chips. The key to a promising design is a nanowire bent into a circle.
Scientific American March 2006 Mark Fischetti	Spin and Swing Portable consumer products such as music players, cameras and cell phones are becoming ever smaller. Miniaturized electronics deserve some of the credit, but so do ever shrinking motors.
PC World January 15, 2003 Paul Roberts	Discarded Drives Yield Private Data Financial files, love letters, porn, and more found on used PCs resold online or at retail.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Sandwich promises cheap storage University of California at Los Angeles researchers have used a simple, inexpensive manufacturing technique to fabricate tiny sandwiches of organic material and metal that can be used as electrical switches.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007	Hard-Disk Sales to Remain Strong Through 2010, Despite Competing Technologies The hard disk drive will be a key component in more and more consumer electronics products through the rest of the decade, reports market researchers.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero	Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.
PC World March 6, 2002 Martyn Williams	Driving the Future of Hard Disks Industry group unveils plans for a removable hard disk system, designed for PCs and other devices...
InternetNews January 28, 2008 Gene Hirschel	Seagate And The Storage Spiral Seagate recently launched a solid-state, all Flash drive in its storage offerings.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Motion sensor nears quantum limit Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have constructed a device that can measure movements as small as one thousandth of a nanometer, which is one hundredth the size of a hydrogen atom.
InternetNews September 1, 2004 Clint Boulton	Hitachi Hatches Mini Drive For Consumer Devices Hitachi looks to outdo Seagate and Toshiba in the race to get a quiet, sleek 1.8 inch mini hard drive to market for consumers.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.
RootPrompt.org May 24, 2000 Peter Gutmann	Secure Deletion of Data With the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption systems, an attacker wishing to gain access to sensitive data is forced to look elsewhere for information....
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage	Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Eric Smalley	Metal stores more hydrogen One reason the world isn't running on hydrogen fuel is that it's hard to store. Researchers from the National University of Singapore have made an accidental discovery that brings the promise of clean hydrogen energy a big step forward.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.
PC Magazine June 21, 2006	Data Cram IBM researchers set new world record by storing 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch of magnetic tape.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Defragment Floppy Disks Windows XP Disk Defragmenter won't handle a floppy disk.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Nanotubes harvest electrons Researchers from the University of Bologna and the University of Trieste in Italy, and the University of Notre Dame have found a way to alter carbon nanotubes so that they efficiently separate electrical charge. The method could lead to more efficient solar cells.
InternetNews July 23, 2010	What Keeps SSD From Replacing Spinning Disks Flash is faster, cooler and uses less power, but there's one little problem that keeps it from ever really replacing spinning disks.
Technology Research News February 11, 2004	Electricity teleportation devised Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have devised a way to teleport electricity.