Hard Drive Writes At 100x Standard Speed

With news that could turn the technology world on its ear, scientist have discovered a way to improved the write speed of a hard drive by 100x faster than current speeds.

Dutch scientist at Radboud University Nijmegen used a special laser to send flashes of polarized light to a 5-micron-wide spot on a disk surface which is heated. But the only problem is that the demonstrated drive has a 5-micron width, which is 10 time larger than your normal recording area. And this only improves the write time, and does nothing for read time.

Hopefully they will make this into a usable model.
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