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Building a Better Hard Drive
By Daniel Oppenheimer
Published: Dec. 10, 2012

Professors Grant Willson and Chris Ellison worked with students to develop a new technique for creating hard drives to serve the growing “cloud” and users with massive movie collections.
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- CPE Resident said on Dec. 17, 2012 at 2:54 a.m.
  Alex would be proud. w00t!
- Speck said on Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:58 a.m.
  What a wonderful success story for those students! I am sure we will be hearing from these Austin lads and ladies for years to come.
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