Green Tea Good for Hard Drives

[ayoub_ibrahim]

For years, green tea has been believed by some to lower cholesterol, prevent rheumatoid arthritis and even stave off cancer. Now scientists think the warm green stuff has yet another benefit: the potential to save hard-drive manufacturers millions of dollars.

A team of researchers based in Tucson, Arizona, announced Monday that a study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing, the researchers said.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63268,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6

[LvR]

Whatever next?............................. hard-drives in my tea?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

lol

[spadnos]

Or fortune tellers reading the hard drives in your teacup?

[Dilitante1]

or when diagnosing drive problems, fix er up with a spot o' tea

[Ssin]

Ok now I can see Lipton's shares rising to the sky!! Better go buy some

[Greebe]

No doubt... if it works for HD platters it'll work on optics too

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Greebe
No doubt... if it works for HD platters it'll work on optics too

Maybe, maybe not. The article says that a specific reason is that the tannins unique to the tea are especially attracted to the ceramic particles that they're trying to flush out.

I don't think the compounds used in optics these days exhibit those same ceramic properties, do they?

[spadnos]

Originally posted by Ssin
Ok now I can see Lipton's shares rising to the sky!! Better go buy some

Does Lipton sell green tea?

That's a scary thought.

- Steve

[XHotKolaX]

Lipton doesn't sell tea. They sell brown dust and call it "tea"

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Dilitante1
or when diagnosing drive problems, fix er up with a spot o' tea

Just warm up your hard drive and take a sip.

[cjolley]

What's next?
Feng Shui hard drives?
Chuck

[LvR]

Need bigger storage space, allow the tea to brew a little longer!.

[Greebe]

Originally posted by spadnos
Does Lipton sell green tea?

That's a scary thought.

- Steve

Lipton does sell a fairly good quality green tea. Have some up in the cupboard. I mix a bit of freshly frozen Lemon juice (from trees a couple houses over) in with it, makes a cool refreshing drink