Researchers in Singapore have discovered a way to bump up hard disk storage capacity to six times current figures, and all it takes is a pinch of sodium chloride — also known as chemical-grade table salt.

A new take on the idea, headlined by Joel Yang of Singapore’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), ditches the idea of inefficient patternless clumps and instead makes slightly larger grains (10 nanometers, up from seven to eight nanometers), in regular patterns, which each store one bit.

(via How Salt Could Multiply Hard Drive Space | Wired Science | Wired.com)