The effect of such medium properties as magnetic unit size, film thickness, and strength of anisotropy, dipolar, and exchange interactions on the storage capacity limit of a thin‐film recording medium is investigated. Relationships are derived for media with different properties that have equivalent capacity. The physically realizable range of material properties and their effect on the capacity bound are explored. Results on edge effects for capacity bound computations are presented. The results indicate that media for which anisotropy is the dominant source of magnetic energy have the greatest potential for information storage.

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