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World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms
archmageDate: Tuesday, 17-January-2012, 2:46 PM | Message # 1
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Scientists have built a magnetic storage device made of 96 atoms.
The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today.




Hard drives could one day be the size of rice grains, powering music players so small they would fit inside your ear.

Scientists at IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have built the world's smallest unit of magnetic storage, using just 96 atoms to create one byte of data. Conventional drives require a half a billion atoms for each byte.

The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today. Just imagine an iPod Touch that held 12.8 terabytes of music.


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Full article/source - http://news.discovery.com/tech/worlds-smallest-hard-drive-120112.html
 
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