22 February 2006, 13:30 UTC#1
Can you imagine world without data compression? And where you never have to back anything up?
US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, hopes to achieve exactly that. He says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn utlimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage, to be exact.
To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera.
Full Storywow thats cheap for that much storage, im SO getting a few of them if and when they come out!
22 February 2006, 13:33 UTC#2
Fucking crazyness
22 February 2006, 13:34 UTC#3
Damn, this will be great for the webhosting industry.
22 February 2006, 13:36 UTC#4
yup and for the horders who just fill endless hard drives (like me)
22 February 2006, 13:52 UTC#5
I don't understand why that means things shouldn't be backed up? It's a lot of space yeah, but what if the drive gets corrupted?
22 February 2006, 14:00 UTC#6
maybe they're fuckup proof ???? I have no idea
22 February 2006, 17:17 UTC#7
When would this happen if it does?
22 February 2006, 17:31 UTC#8
read the article, it says five years
22 February 2006, 20:18 UTC#9
just keep on capturing footage and never run out of space!
22 February 2006, 20:22 UTC#10
Thats insane!
Who the hell would even need that amount of space
22 February 2006, 20:25 UTC#11
QUOTE(pattyt18 @ Feb 22 2006, 08:22 PM) [snapback]289329[/snapback]
Thats insane!
Who the hell would even need that amount of space
tv channels? people that make tv and film stuff, graphics people, all that jazz.
22 February 2006, 20:32 UTC#12
QUOTE(iammarcmason @ Feb 22 2006, 01:36 PM) [snapback]289118[/snapback]
the horders who just fill endless hard drives (like me)
so me...
22 February 2006, 21:08 UTC#13
I would too, I would have a copy of so much shit!
22 February 2006, 22:11 UTC#14
awesome, will normal computers run these tho?
22 February 2006, 22:14 UTC#15
todays computers - probably not
computers in five years time - I would hope so
22 February 2006, 22:15 UTC#16
yeah true, cant wait, thing is, ive got 200 gig on my computer, and ive never ever run out of space.
22 February 2006, 22:18 UTC#17
christ I've got 450 gig and I have 780 MB left
23 February 2006, 01:10 UTC#18
Holy fuck that's alot of space.
Wounder how many mp3's you could fit on it, LOL.
23 February 2006, 01:19 UTC#19
I want one, plz.
23 February 2006, 01:30 UTC#20
I did some calculations and roughly this many - 357,913,941 Mp3's
23 February 2006, 01:32 UTC#21
QUOTE(iammarcmason @ Feb 22 2006, 08:30 PM) [snapback]289738[/snapback]
I did some calculations and roughly this many - 357,913,941 Mp3's
WOW! Lmao, I wouldn't even beable to get that many if I tried.
23 February 2006, 01:37 UTC#22
lol I wonder if there are even that many mp3's??
