12.8 Pb!

[Xtrema]

As in 12.8 PetaB = 12.8 Million GB.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...=NLT_AM&nlid=1

Using a piece of wire 100,000 times thinner than a hair and water, researchers at several leading universities are developing a new data storage medium that also has data transfer rates that are as fast as RAM.

According to the researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and Harvard University, barium titanium oxide nanowires suspended in water could hold 12.8 million GB per square centimeter. If the memory density can be realized commercially, "a device the size of an iPod Nano could hold enough MP3 music to play for 300,000 years without repeating a song or enough DVD-quality video to play movies for 10,000 years without repetition," the University of Pennsylvania said in a statement.

[GQBalla]

thats pretty interesting stuff but we probably wont even see this on the shelfs for another 40 ish years.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by GQBalla
thats pretty interesting stuff but we probably wont even see this on the shelfs for another 40 ish years.

We went from 40MB to 400GB in less than 20 years. This shouldn't take more than another 20.

[b_t]

Originally posted by Xtrema


We went from 40MB to 400GB in less than 20 years. This shouldn't take more than another 20.

more like... no hard drives at all, to 1.44mb floppies, to 4mb, in ten years, and then another ten years to 400gb

[frostyda9]

That's a lot of pr0n

[RickDaTuner]

I give it 5 years.. there is too much profit to made in the tech sectors, especially when you are offering a nano solution to Memory shortage

Just one step closer to having USSC Voyager become a relaity

[djayz]

wowzers thats a lot of space

and im with rick 5-10 years and we will see these types or storage mediums used for commercial use and another 3-4 years after that and ill have what we call today a super computer haha

[Zero102]

That is insane. Very clever idea though.
It sounds like it would be very sensitive to vibration or impact however. That is why solid state devices (i.e. flash memory) are preferable for portable players.
I would really like to see that come to realization.
If you watch the trend of hard drive size vs transfer rates, we are going to be in big trouble soon. Drives are getting bigger, but development of faster transfer mechanisms is really lagging. I hope this won't be a problem with this technology.

[Vagabond142]

Solid state hard drives would be the shiz just put a lot of those nanofibers into an enclosure with shock protection and such (I know it's a lot more complex then that), boom... Exa or even zetta-bit drives

[frostyda9]

There are already solid state hard drives

[M_K_3]

thats fucking crazy!

[bspot]

Could such a device aid a computer in defeating a human chess champion?

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by bspot
Could such a device aid a computer in defeating a human chess champion?

But you could probably have the whole internet cached with a few fibers.