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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by emodendroket on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:31PM (#13830933)
That's probably got more to do with the prevalence of streaming services. Very few people keep all their music on their portable devices anymore.
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by OJFord on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:31AM (#13836607)
It doesn't matter what the cause is - I'm saying as a result of that, the general populus understands gigabytes.
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by emodendroket on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:16AM (#13837780)
I don't think they do, because family members ask me if they need to replace a 500GB hard drive with a bigger one when it's all Excel and Quicken.
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