Seagate Invents Nanotube Lubricated Harddrives

Seagate has submitted a patent for a technology it invented that could give current hard drive technology a few more years of life. Using nanotube technology, Seagate plans to bring a hard drive’s read and write head even closer to the spinning platter than it already is today. Because of the mechanics of the way hard drives store data, the closer the read and write head is to the patter, the more information can be recorded.

Now this is a cool idea. Technology like this doesn’t sound like it could be -that- reliable though.. it’s extremely precise. The drives also have a fixed life span of 5 – 10 years. Ahh, the fun of backing up your 5,000GB HD before it dies.