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Data Transfer Has A Speed Limit

Posted by simoniker on from the quite-a-high-one dept.

ChrisHanel writes "Yahoo News is reporting that despite the infinite climb data speeds seem to be making, scientists at Stanford say we'll eventually hit a barrier due to the inability to keep the data stable after a certain transfer speed. But no worries just yet; the watermark they've set is still 1,000 times faster than what we have now." Apparently: "The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data."

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  1. Re:Limit only applies to Magnetic Storage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Porn.

    /JE

  2. Fun! by insert+3+letters · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data." I wish I had a particle accelerator just lying around, that'd be sweet.

  3. Future markets by Old+Wolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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,

    Fools, cutting themself out of the linear accelerator harddrive market already. I'm switching to WD..