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Re:Magnetic recording breakthrough reported by afhof on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @01:48AM (#3565489)
Does this affect read speed at all? The article only mentions write speed.
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Re:Magnetic recording breakthrough reported by johapers on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @04:04AM (#3565838)
The readout will still be carried out by a magnetoresistive sensor, so that is not directly affected. With a smaller bit size it might be necessary to further develop the read head, but the road map for that is quite well understood at the moment.
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Re:Magnetic recording breakthrough reported by lmm on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @06:33AM (#3566148)
Didn't minidiscs read the data optically? Could that tech be combined with this to make a pure-laser hard disk?
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