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Experiments Show Theoretical Speed Limit to Computer Data Storage

Experiments Show Theoretical Speed Limit to Computer Data Storage

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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