3.5 inch disk with 100 terrabytes!!!

...non-contact UV photon induced electric field poling of ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals....
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DAMN!! Why didn't i think of that!?! :rolling:
 
It would never really have any practical use for home PCs, but I guess it could be used for...storing...really large...stuff.
 
I dunno...I couldnt imagine having 500 gigabytes a few years ago. Who knows what we will be keeping on our computers in another few years.
 
I still cant imagine anyone having 500 gbs at the moment, I struggle to use more then 10gb
 
Great, now I can take all my porn with me!
 
Fat Tony! said:
I still cant imagine anyone having 500 gbs at the moment, I struggle to use more then 10gb
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Well I'm using 100 at the moment, but I could go way beyond that :D
 
Sweet! Mass Mass storage..!!

Then does that mean that if you put an unprotected disc under a UV light it would screw all teh data?
 
I think 15 years go people didn't know what to do with 40 megs
wow 40 megs! too much rofl..

anyway .. I thought they were using DNA or Genetic technology or what ever it's called to store large data in tiny space.
 
Maybe in 10 years your average game will take up 120 terrabyte? Thats a shitload of pollys...
 
I have only 80gb for anime, so we keep recoring them on CR-Rs I think we have like 200 CD-Rs with anime on them. lol
 
Lol, thoes are going to cost like a $1000 unless they find a way to mass produce them.

Edit: I'm stupid and didn't read the whole article. It says $570-750 with the disks being $45
 
I remember 8 years ago when I got my first computer that had something like 360MB on it. People had no idea what I was planning on doing with that much space. So lets do some math. 8 years ago the average hard drive had 400 MB on it (we'll say) and today its around 40GB, that's a 10,000% increase. That would mean that just with a rate from 8 years ago we would be at about 4 TB hard drives in another 8 years. However, this doesn't take into consideration rate of change (too lazy to try it now) so we will probably be at a lot more in 8 years, I would guess at least 100TB.
 
I don't think it'll be that much, but yeah, it will be quite a lot.
 
Growth rates for technology never follow a strict rate. It always increases until it approaches essentially an asymptote, and it slows down until a new process or method is discovered. In the long run, the change seems more linear, but in the scale of 10 years, it's nowhere near perfect.
remember when all processors got stuck around 1.5 GHz? Then we went 1.6,1.7,1.8,etc. and now we're stuck at 3.0 again.
Here's a pic to show you what I mean. [The pic and these numbers are estimates]

Basically, we will see how close we are to using this scale of space by seeing if there are any new technologies or methods developed.
 
I always wondered why don't they just make the processer run at what ever they want .. like 10Ghz? I'm a n00b at these things but you seem to know a bit more about them.
 
[Anyone out there, stop me when I'm wrong]

'They' (hardware developers) are limited by space, precision and heat. The new 'methods' I refer to are ways of creating processor chips with (to put it in laymen's terms) more wires in the same amount of space without having it catch on fire.

And processor speed counts operations. Hz are the measurement of (any unit)/ seconds.
So a 1 GHz processor has 1 billion operations per second.

And to get a 10 GHz processor, ummm, put 5 2 GHz processors together, with fans, and cicuited together. Don't know where you'll find a MoBo for that :-/
 
can I put the whole WORLD's data into 3.5 inches disk LOL :laugh: that would be awsome.
 
PunisherUSA said:
[Anyone out there, stop me when I'm wrong]

And to get a 10 GHz processor, ummm, put 5 2 GHz processors together, with fans, and cicuited together. Don't know where you'll find a MoBo for that :-/
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yes you can do that by getting SERVER BLADES which has between 2-4 CPU sokets. Example :
Verrai Blade Rack Syetm

The Verari Blade Rack system contains server blades with up to two Xeon processors per blade. So 22 Blades by 2 cpu each, OMG 44 CPU the System Got................WOW
 
Ah yes, the dual Xeon processor servers. I didn't know they could go up to 44 though.

But come on! We're talking practical here! Wait... /me looks at thread title
ahem! nm...
 
I don't think simply putting processors together works quite so easily though, because most programs simply are set up to run across 5 processors.
 
chip manufacturers are bound by two things: current technology and profit margins.

i don't need to explain profit margins.

each processor has a certain 'achitecture'. there's a general trend of doing things a certain way etc. designers are limited to the amount of power they can have, and the amount of space they have available on whatever motherboards we're using today. but generally, there needs to be an evolution in chip architecture before we see magnificent speeds. Cray supercomputers are an example of how to get humungous computing power.

anyway i'm not an expert. just wrote that from memory.
 
Gorgon said:
can I put the whole WORLD's data into 3.5 inches disk LOL :laugh: that would be awsome.
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heh, that would be cool. But no where near possible considering this statistic:

Every year there is approximately 2 'exabytes' of new data created on computers, and that number grows every year.

2 exabytes = 2,097,152 terabytes or 2,147,483,648 gigabytes. :eek:

I love google calculator.
 
so basically it's like software and games .. you know half-life 1 -->> half-life 2
It sorta all depends on the design, and thus as time goes by we get better designs -> resulting in better hardware?
 
i could make use of 1 terabyte about now.

i HAD 240 gb filled (till one drive crashed). not i have 120 gb filled, and have to delete stuff.

64 chip parallel processing systems are used today, not common but for large scale server/database systems. i've heard of renderfarms using systems like this. the cpu's are usually a couple grand each, plus 64 gig of registered ECC ram... well, you're not gonna have one in your room soon.
 
We will never need 100 terabytes of space. :|
 
Time will tell :)

Heh, I can just imagine an mp3 player that uses this technology. Forget thousands of sounds, however...every song ever recorded :)
 
The Thing said:
We will never need 100 terabytes of space. :|
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Assuming the apocalypse doesn't occur then I will make you a $500 000 bet that we will within the next 20 years. There are technologies that people are just waiting to begin unlocking that would require that amount of memory but we can't begin right now because of the lack of computing power. As computing power grows the use of computers that will be used for more unusual practices will grow and storage requirements will increase.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Time will tell :)

Heh, I can just imagine an mp3 player that uses this technology. Forget thousands of sounds, however...every song ever recorded :)
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The Mullinator said:
Assuming the apocalypse doesn't occur then I will make you a $500 000 bet that we will within the next 20 years. There are technologies that people are just waiting to begin unlocking that would require that amount of memory but we can't begin right now because of the lack of computing power. As computing power grows the use of computers that will be used for more unusual practices will grow and storage requirements will increase.
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Aha! I have fooled you both with my Bill Gates reference! :D

And to think you actually believed me. :)
 
The Thing said:
Aha! I have fooled you both with my Bill Gates reference! :D

And to think you actually believed me. :)
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Bill Gates said that?

I would have though that he above all people would be one of the first to realize that such a day could come.
 
OLD...like, over a year old. Or older...

Still...nice to see it's making it's way to market soon
 
i believe Bill Gates said something about 46k worth of memory. "we'll never need 46k of memory", or something to that effect.


EDIT: it was back in the 80s when he said that.
 
Dedalus said:
i believe Bill Gates said something about 46k worth of memory. "we'll never need 46k of memory", or something to that effect.


EDIT: it was back in the 80s when he said that.
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"640k of memory should be enough for anybody"

yeah, i was gonna say that, so i looked it up, and apparently it's a myth. there was an interview and he denied that he ever said that.
 
Foxtrot said:
It would never really have any practical use for home PCs, but I guess it could be used for...storing...really large...stuff.
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so u mean.. i can store Chris_D or CyberSh33p or perhaps bliink on one of those? :D :E
 
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