ADVISORY/IBM's `Pixie Dust' Breakthrough to Quadruple Disk Drive Density.

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IBM today announced that it is using just a few atoms of "pixie See PXE. dust" to push back the data storage industry's most formidable barrier.

The company is first to mass-produce computer hard disk drives using a revolutionary new type of magnetic coating that is eventually expected to quadruple the data density of current hard disk drive products.

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