[url]http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7929[/url]
[quote] 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.
Back in May, 2004, we wrote, “Electrons’ electro magnetic properties cause an interesting effect that you depend on. Absolutely. It’s called electricity and electric current is measured by the abundance, or lack, of electrons in the ferroelectric nucleus, better known as voltage or static charge. Ferroelectric spintronics is, in turn, the method by which electric fields and photons change the properties of ferroelectric molecules.”
In the past, data storage has only been able to orient the direction a field of electrons as they move around a molecule, Thomas told p2pnet. “But now there’s a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule,” he says.
“Normally all the electrons could spin randomly working against the best electrical signal. The electrons are also capable of spinning in both directions a once. But my unique method for creating uniform in-sync spinning electrons will for the first time allow a whole new field of science and electronics to emerge.
“With the ability to control electron spin we will see much smaller electronic devices on the market.”
An analogy would be our solar system with all the planets circling the Sun in a clockwise direction. Spintronics would add spin to the planets and their moons in a determined direction as they rotated around the sun.
“One field under study is optical spintronics following Faradays laws,” Thomas continues. “The potential data capacity is enormous, and there’d be a very high data transfer rate. Consequently, there’d be no need for expensive compression software like MPEG and others, and no need to backup data.”
The goal of spintronics is to generate a perfect spin current using an electric field and UV photons in a high-k dipole dielectric material like a ferroelectric molecule, says Thomas, going on:
“It was important for the material to be a bianry dipole that could then be made reversible, have non-dissipative of power, and not suffer from leakage current lost over time.”
What would this mean to you? It would allow the manufacture of double sided disks made by separating the ferroelectric molecular coating layers by a plastic, metal, glass, or ceramic substrate.
And how would this allow you to store immense amounts of data on the discs?
“I’m convinced intraband / outerband resonant absorption by circularly polarized UV photons leads to spin polarization of electrons and, that it’s possible to create an ‘Atomic Quantum Switch’ which carries an electro-static field, electro-magnetic field, and spin orientation,” he said.
“And that can be made to represent non-volatile 0’s and 1’s.”
Thomas’ agent in Japan is in talks with “several big name companies,” he states, saying he expects it’ll be two to three years before prototypes will be built.
“I’d say we can expect a finished product to be on the market in about four to five years,” he says, adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each.
Thomas is a 30-year pioneer whose projects include a computer with a 3D display, instant response, able to run every available OS and application simultaneously, virtually no power consumption or moving parts and complete security – and whose physical component is about the size of a pack of playing cards.[/quote]
I want a petabyte hard drive!
Now those funfacts I promised...
(Taken from Wikipedia)
1. According to Kevin Kelly in The New York Times, "the entire [written] works of humankind, from the beginning of recorded history, in all languages" would amount to 50 petabytes of data.
2. Google processes about 20 petabytes of data per day.
3. AT&T has about 16 petabytes of data transferred through their networks each day.
4. The 4 experiments in the Large Hadron Collider will produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which will be distributed over the LHC Computing Grid.
5. As of October 2009, Isohunt has about 9.76 petabytes of files contained in torrents indexed globally.
6. The Internet Archive contains about 3 petabytes of data, and is growing at the rate of about 100 terabytes per month as of March, 2009.
7. World of Warcraft utilizes 1.3 petabytes of storage to maintain its game.
8. The 2009 movie Avatar is reported to have taken over 1 petabyte of local storage at Weta Digital for the rendering of the 3D CGI effects.
and I though 2TB was good...
As always, porn is driving forward new technology.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;20675751]As always, porn is driving forward new technology.[/QUOTE]
I wonder how much space all the porn in existence takes up.
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;20675860]I wonder how much space all the porn in existence takes up.[/QUOTE]
Universe-a-byte
Doesn't that mean that in time we could be losing many gigabytes of space on our hard drives because of that loss?
Obviously it'll take a while before drives become that big, but still.
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[QUOTE=windwakr;20675938]Drive capacity goes by 1000 times, not 1024.
That's why a 320GB HD is only 298G[b]i[/b]B.[/QUOTE]
That's who I was replying to, then I got ninja'd.
[QUOTE=windwakr;20675938]Drive capacity goes by 1000 times, not 1024.
That's why a 320GB HD is only 298G[b]i[/b]B.
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And seeing as how the guy making it is scientific and crap, he wouldn't use Petabyte for 1024 times, he'd use Pebibyte. The article writer needs to learn his facts.[/QUOTE]
Most people don't use the proper term. Because -bibyte sounds retarded. Generally, 1024 is what's used, although drive manufacturers often use 1000.
Of course, I've seen some crazy stuff too. One HDD I saw used 1000 MB per GB, but 1024 KB per MB. What?
Psh. Only 1 Petabyte, gonna need a lot more than that for my porn collection.
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;20677036]Psh. Only 1 Petabyte, gonna need a lot more than that for my porn collection.[/QUOTE]
So you have enough porn to cover half the worlds population? Is the sun also your enemy? How about non-caffeinated beverages?
There's no way to back that shit up except with RAID. Modern tape drives can barely hold 500gb on a tape.
[QUOTE=weeman007;20677240]So you have enough porn to cover half the worlds population? Is the sun also your enemy? How about non-caffeinated beverages?[/QUOTE]
This dude clearly has no sense of humour.
this is probably what sparked the whole interest in the new 100Gbps fiber lines, because with ordinary hard drives it would be impossible to use any more than around 130 MB/s
But what about holographic storage. Why no love for the holo? :(
(but why no need for backups, surely these hard drvies are not magically immune to failure or other data loss)
[QUOTE=weeman007;20677240]So you have enough porn to cover half the worlds population? Is the sun also your enemy? How about non-caffeinated beverages?[/QUOTE]
No, I have enough porn to cover the earth ten times over. The sun is my best friend. He keeps my skin tan and gives me free cancer and sometimes we drink tea together so we're fine with lack of caffeine.
Pffft...
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte]Zettabyte[/url] > Petabyte
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Let me rephrase that,
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte]Yottabyte[/url] > life
:v:
how big is a googolplex?
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or even a googol for that matter
I didn't even know what a Petabyte was. Awesome.
[QUOTE=rampageturke;20686943]how big is a googolplex?
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or even a googol for that matter[/QUOTE]
googol = 10^100
googolplex = 10^googol
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;20675860]I wonder how much space all the porn in existence takes up.[/QUOTE]
49 out of 50 Petabytes :v:
Hard drive space is advancing really really fast, though it makes no sense for consumers if we can't have cheap access to fast internet connections.
[QUOTE=Revolutionary;20687488]49 out of 50 Petabytes :v:[/QUOTE]
It's actually 69 Petabytes.
[QUOTE=pentium;20685295]There's no way to back that shit up except with RAID. Modern tape drives can barely hold 500gb on a tape.[/QUOTE]
Feels fucking terrible man, first time I realized I needed more than one tape to back up my system I cried.
[QUOTE=windwakr;20675938]Drive capacity goes by 1000 times, not 1024.
That's why a 320GB HD is only 298G[b]i[/b]B.
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And seeing as how the guy making it is scientific and crap, he wouldn't use Petabyte for 1024 times, he'd use Pebibyte. The article writer needs to learn his facts.[/QUOTE]
Only hard drive companies use 1000 so they can sell it and round the number up and base it off of that for a lower price.
When you put the data on the drive, windows, mac, linux, all OS's utilize it as 1024x
Ok and how the flying fuck would you fill up such a harddrive? You'd need insane transfer speeds to fill it up in this lifetime.
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;20675860]I wonder how much space all the porn in existence takes up.[/QUOTE]
Hundreds... Literally... Hundreds...
[QUOTE=windwakr;20675938]
People rating me dumb don't know anything about drive manufacturers or the correct usage of MB/GB/TB/etc.[/QUOTE]
I rate you box because:
1) -bibyte is the most ridiculous naming convention ever created.
2) It was created by a consortium of idiots (also known as the IEC) who tried to corrupt a standard that's been in place for 50 years for their own interests.
You also seem to know nothing of hard drives because in the 80's and early 90's, drives used to have their advertised capacity in proper bytes (1024, not 1000.) They just started doing that crap later on, which is why the IEC created the corrupt -bibyte convention to cover the drive manufacturers asses because they started to get sued en masse.
I bet I'd still find my self scavenging to delete unneeded files to make room for more shit.
You could probably download the internet on one HDD. :D
Adding to what GiGaBiTe said, computers use square numbers for memory/storage and for most other things.
[quote]And where you never have to back anything up?[/quote]
really? What happens if the drive gets corrupted
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