Journal: Magnetic recording has a speed limit

According to this weeks article in Nature, there is a natural limit to the speed at which data can be encoded. The Institute of Physics press release sites that "the maximum speed at which data can be recorded onto a magnetic medium is at least a 1000 times slower than previously believed according to physicists in the US and Russia (I Tudosa et al. 2004 Nature 428 831). The result - which was obtained using a high-energy electron beam at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) -- could have implications for future ultrahigh density data storage devices." Full article for those with subsription is here