--[And the url is .jp Jason, so the title was poorly translated, that doesn't mean the technology doesn't work fine in japan,]--

I'm just worried that when it ships internationally it'll spell all the words wrong because the drive media has only been tested on storing Japanese characters. The "bstr" in "abstract" is too many consonants in a row for it to handle (Japanese tops out at 1 or 2 and then there's always a vowel) so hence you get read errors.

(Yes, I'm joking).

So how much is that really? half a terabit that's with controlbits and such and in bytes what? and how much surface area does a 3.5" HD have available?
Clear as mud this way :/

And the url is .jp Jason, so the title was poorly translated, that doesn't mean the technology doesn't work fine in japan, the researchers aren't into languages it seems, and file titles are never spellchecked on computers.

But of course every 6 months we get stories about those breakthroughs, for decades now, and they NEVER pan out when pre-announced like that.

The pdf is named CRESTEC abstruct.

Is that a bad sign, or just a foreign word that either means abstract or looks like it?