Boffins at the University of York have come up with a hard drive read/write method that could increase speeds to terabytes per second, using much less energy than current magnetic methods. The hard drives still use a magnetic platter, but the bits are flipped using heat to harness some internal property of the magnetic media to get much more bang for the buck out of the energy and speed.

Considering that we appear to be at the beginning of a headlong rush to SSDs, and also that hard drive capacity will be a lot cheaper than SSD for the near future, I wonder if this will prolong the argument.