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Toshiba Announces Hard Drive Storage Capacity Breakthrough

According to Computerworld, Toshiba has recently made a significant data storage breakthrough. Toshiba engineers have managed to arrange magnetic bits that store data in an organized row pattern, an arrangement that is vastly different from the configuration of current hard disk drives. This discovery could lead to the production of hard drives with significantly higher capacities in the not-too-distant future.

"Prototypes of the media have been made before but Toshiba says its engineers have, for the first time, succeeded in producing a media sample in which the magnetic bits are organized into a pattern of rows. The rows and gaps between them are important because they act as markers to where data is stored. If the disk surface consisted of an unorganized mass of magnetic bits it could be impossible to find data but the organization allows for the quick location of information."