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IBM's "Pixie Dust" Drives Improved

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tiny-storage dept.

jeffroe writes "Infoworld has an article stating that IBM has enhanced it's 'Pixie Dust' technology yet again. The areal density has improved to 70gb per square inch! Apparently that means 80gb drives for laptops." IBM's also predicted hard drives to have 100gb per square inch by 2003. Storage space just keeps increasing.

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  1. ObMonty Python by sconeu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And now, a man with a hard drive up his nose!

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