When denser drives make recovery harder · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave looks at a report of hard-drive tracks shrinking from tens of nanometers and immediately considers what that means for rescuing data. Drives were never designed to be repaired, he says, and tighter tolerances mean a small failure can become severe enough that future recovery may require electron microscopes and robotics.
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Proposed recording date: 2007-10-20. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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