Magnetic Bacteria Hard Drives

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Magnetic Bacteria May Help Build Faster, Smaller ‘Nano-Magnet’ Hard Drives, Research Shows
Recent microbe research found that a certain type of iron-eating bacteria has the ability to produce tiny magnets. Enter magnetic bacteria. Similar to the magnets in computer hard drives, these magnetic bacteria could be used to create faster hard drives, while maintaining size qualifications. (…) Ultimately, after the team has reduced the clumps to single magnets, each nano-magnet should be able to hold one bit of information, or eight terabits per square inch.