However, the new drive will be significantly slower when writing to the older 100MB disks -- because of the head design changes needed to increase per-disk capacity.

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Demong and the team then traveled to Australia to test the design in a tunnel against a 65-mile per hour gusts.

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Solyndra investor David Prend, of Rockport Capital Partners, said Gronet's cylindrical-design innovation "is huge, because it lowers the cost per kilowatt hour" of electricity for customers.

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