Magnetic hard drives go atomic - Storing data on a single atom - Sensationalist Headlines

I also think 30 years for 1 TB games is too long. We'll see those in maybe 10 years, 15 if pessimistic. It's not like we're suddenly just gonna go to 1 TB games, it'll be a gradual increase. 100 GB, 150 GB, 400 GB...

[QUOTE=Orkel;51954805]I also think 30 years for 1 TB games is too long. We'll see those in maybe 10 years, 15 if pessimistic. It's not like we're suddenly just gonna go to 1 TB games, it'll be a gradual increase. 100 GB, 150 GB, 400 GB...[/QUOTE] Yeah, if devs are lazy enough to pull a Titanfall-all-our-files-are-wav routine. The main limiting factor will still be connection speed. There'll be faster compression/decompression schemes in the future, so I'd say games less than 100-200GB will be the standard for a couple decades.

cool discovery, but the current conditions required to replicate such stability would only be feasible for very specific uses(if any). below 5 kelvin? that's below -268 celsius, and we can currently only reach temperatures like that in special testing facilities. granted, this is the [I]absolute[/I] smallest we could compress data on a physical platform, because you simply can't get smaller than 1 atom. (ok well technically there are many things smaller than a holmium atom, but feasible enough to produce results is what we're looking for)

Does this mean we'll have petabyte storage in 15 years?

[QUOTE=matt000024;51953842]tbh I could honestly see triple a games being around 1tb maybe 30 years in the future[/QUOTE] To hell with that. We better be buying HDDs with the game pre-installed then. I am not going to sit through a 1TB install That would use up my monthly cap. Or if I bought the physical copy, 212 DVDs It'll definitely happen, though, we just better have some kickass read/writes by then for even the cheapest storage, gigbit internet everywhere, no data caps

[QUOTE=TheTalon;51955514]To hell with that. We better be buying HDDs with the game pre-installed then. I am not going to sit through a 1TB install That would use up my monthly cap. Or if I bought the physical copy, 212 DVDs It'll definitely happen, though, we just better have some kickass read/writes by then for even the cheapest storage, gigbit internet everywhere, no data caps[/QUOTE] Gigabit would still suck for that

[QUOTE=J!NX;51954100][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/DataTNG.jpg[/t] Some day, maybe[/QUOTE] please, data only has a memory capacity of only eight hundred quadrillion bits

[QUOTE=Arctic-Zone;51955478]Does this mean we'll have petabyte storage in 15 years?[/QUOTE] You could already build that at home actually, and it wouldn't even be insanely expensive. Not cheap, for sure, but actually doable. [editline]14th March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Levelog;51955628]Gigabit would still suck for that[/QUOTE] A gigabit connection would only provide realistically connections of about 100MiB/s. It'll still take a fuckton of time to download a 1TiB game then.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;51958307]You could already build that at home actually, and it wouldn't even be insanely expensive. Not cheap, for sure, but actually doable.[/QUOTE] Yeah you're right, it's only like $40k USD of hard drives. Course if you were actually getting a petabyte of raw storage you'd have to be dumber than Linus to not run it in a redundant config bringing your costs to more like $50k + a minimum of two chassis to put it in and all the hardware to support that.

[QUOTE=helifreak;51958320]Yeah you're right, it's only like $40k USD of hard drives. Course if you were actually getting a petabyte of raw storage you'd have to be dumber than Linus to not run it in a redundant config bringing your costs to more like $50k + a minimum of two chassis to put it in and all the hardware to support that.[/QUOTE] His entire setup was incorrectly configured. No one should take professional advice from Linus Media Group.

[QUOTE=Lazore;51953786]At one point, storage capacity will be pretty obsolete, even for hobbyist working with 3D simulations, right?[/QUOTE] At some point, unless we see massive increases in parallel computing capabilities/support, we'll pretty much be to the point where we'll have so much storage we literally won't know what to do with it.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;51958381]At some point, unless we see massive increases in parallel computing capabilities/support, we'll pretty much be to the point where we'll have so much storage we literally won't know what to do with it.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of that good ol' quote: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." Innovations like that in the OP means this will likely continue to hold true for a very long time.