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Experiments Show Theoretical Speed Limit to Computer Data Storage


May 11, 2004 By

According to a group of researchers writing in the latest edition of the journal Nature, they've discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved.

The good news: This limit is about 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art data storage devices.

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