SCIENTISTS CLAIM to have worked out that there is a theoretical speed limit to data retrieval.
According to the popular science mag Nature (
www.nature.com), researchers at Stanford have discovered that you can only write and retrieve data so fast before quantum randomness gets in the way.
The boffins proved this by firing a particle accelerator at magnetic material used in making a computer disk. The results were too chaotic to be of any use in data storage.
The researchers reckon that means that data storage devices can only get 1000 faster than what we have now before some new storage technology is required.
They point out that it will be a long time before this theoretical ceiling is reached.
Source:
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