Howdy bigdude232000-ga,
Obviously, the number is going to vary widely, but it takes a range is from
1 million to "millions" of atoms to store one bit on current hard drives.
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From a 2000 Research Centre Jülich report.
http://www.fz-juelich.de/oea/JB-2000-englisch.pdf
"For comparison: on present hard disks a bit is represented by a magnetized
sector on the hard disk comprising about 100,000,000 atoms."
From a 2002 InfoSatellite.com article titled "One atom One bit" by Pedro
Gomes.
http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2002/09/p200902atom_bit.html
"Current hard drives use millions of atoms to store each individual bit
of information."
From a 2002 Small Times article by By Mark Halper of the "Sunday Business,"
London.
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=5151
"An atom is 1 million times smaller than the magnetic bits that spin in PC
hard drives ..."
From a 2004 ActionFront Data Recovery Labs Inc. web site article.
http://www.actionfront.com/ts_whitepaper.asp
"Briefly, there may be millions of atoms that are magnetically oriented in
a certain direction in one bit."
If you need any clarification, feel free to ask.
Search strategy:
Google search on: atoms bit "hard drive" million OR millions
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