LONDON: A team of scientists has come up with a solution that can help your computer run faster. All you have to do is sing to your data.
The Universities of Sheffield and Leeds research has shown that certain types of sound waves can move data quickly, using minimal power.
The world’s 2.7 zettabytes (2.7 followed by 21 zeros) of data are mostly held on hard disk drives: magnetic disks that work like miniaturised record players, with the data read by sensors that scan over the disk’s surface as it spins.
But because this involves moving parts, there are limits on how fast it can operate.