[NEWZ] Tests Find Theoretical Hard Disc Data Speed Limit

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• (newzsource = Associated Press)
  ...The project was led by researchers at Stanford and included a scientist at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow and engineers at disk-drive maker Seagate Technologies LLC...

The whole enchilada at:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040422/D823H3780.html

 

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However, Seagate's chief technology officer, Mark Kryder, said the project had few real implications for the data-storage industry.

"Certainly we are not going to start packaging linear accelerators into hard disk drives, so the kinds of speeds achieved in these experiments would never be observed in an actual recording device," Kryder said. "It's not something that's going to impact anything we're contemplating in hard disk drives."

Bummer.