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Old January 15th, 2012, 01:20 AM     #1 (permalink)
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World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms

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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.

World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms : Discovery News
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what happens when running several in RAID 0? Nuclear Fusion?
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Or a small atomic explosion.
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Or a small atomic explosion.

resulting from the fusion
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It is not amazing? I really feel like the computers of the future will be small cell phone like devices. Everywhere you go will be monitors and keyboards. When you come close to them you will be able to use them wirelessly. Of course, you'll have the small touch screen for mobile use.
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