Better living through chemistry: Hard Drives + Table Salt = Six times more disk space - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

Ar Scion · 10-16-2011, 05:20 PM

http://news.discovery.com/tech/incre...mkcpgn=rssnws1

Triped · 10-16-2011, 05:36 PM

I have a bunch of hard drives lying around. At first I thought, we could just add common salt to it and sextuple the Disk Space.

Turns out the salt has to be added at the manufacturing stage. FML.

Andrew Scherer · 10-16-2011, 06:40 PM

I just soaked my laptop harddrive in table salt and now it won't turn on. Wat did I do wrong?

Triped · 10-16-2011, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew Scherer

I just soaked my laptop harddrive in table salt and now it won't turn on. Wat did I do wrong?

Mate, you were supposed to add salt to the HDD, you ended up doing the opposite.

Sorry to hear about your Laptop.

Andrew Scherer · 10-16-2011, 07:37 PM

hahaha

Deliguy · 10-16-2011, 08:01 PM

hahaha what a crackpot.

Sure it may be ready for use by 2016, but then he still has to convince at least one of only a handful of engineers in the world qualified to design a harddrive and they'll say SHURE BUDDAY! but they'll already be in 100% production of solid state drives and couldn't care less about improving platter manufacturing.

-God- · 10-17-2011, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Deliguy

hahaha what a crackpot.

Sure it may be ready for use by 2016, but then he still has to convince at least one of only a handful of engineers in the world qualified to design a harddrive and they'll say SHURE BUDDAY! but they'll already be in 100% production of solid state drives and couldn't care less about improving platter manufacturing.

This. SSD will be the only drives in use by most consumers in 2016. Platter based HDDs will be almost as obsolete as floppy drives (in the consumer market) in 2016.

Saying that, I do recall, back in the late 90's maybe, that someone had managed to increase capacity on 3.5" 1.44mb/2.88mb disks by like 10 fold or something. History is repeating itself.

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