03-30-2004, 09:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Truly Teeny Tiny Hard Disks To Turn up
The Inquirer has a short story up which says that Seagate �is set to present research findings this week which mean storage capacities of 50 terabits a square inch are within the grasp of technologists. It will present its findings on March 25th at the American Physical Society conference based on R&D using heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). That technique means that over 3.5 million high res photographs, 2,800 audio CDs, 1600 hours of TV programmes or the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress can sit on 30 millimetres disks.� 8O OK, that�s small. I always wanted to store a few dozen copies of the US Library of Congress in a match box anyway. :lol:
The headline claim is that entire libraries will fit in your pocket, which is an interesting image. I mean, how do they get the shelves that small anyway and what happens to the librarians? :wink: It�s certainly good to see the inexorable trend for smaller mass storage continue. I wonder who will be the fist to release a Pocket PC with some *real* storage capacity in it? :?:
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03-30-2004, 11:33 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Heh.
Yo Toshiba! :twisted: :wink:
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03-30-2004, 12:18 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2003
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storage capacities of 50 terabits
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TeraBITES!!!!! :lol:
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03-30-2004, 12:42 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by TheZodiac
TeraBITES!!!!! :lol:
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:lol: Groan! :lol:
Funnily enough Theone3 - I was thinking of Toshiba as well. I know they bundled a 1Gb Microdrive back with previous models in Japan. Time to build it in guys! 8)
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03-30-2004, 03:32 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2003
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This is great I must say. However, how long do you think 50 Tb's would take to download over 56K. Hell, even on a cable modem, I can see myself being spoon fed by a beautiful nurse in an old age home, she leans in closely, purses her lips and "Files Done" are the last two words I ever hear.
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03-30-2004, 06:13 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2004
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just to let you know, it would take about 4 years to transfer 50 terabtyes using my adsl connection (400k/sec). not that bad. 
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03-30-2004, 07:42 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2003
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I knew someone would take the time to figure that out. Personally I just don't like math enough to do it. Well done though. 
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03-30-2004, 10:18 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Funnily enough Theone3 - I was thinking of Toshiba as well. I know they bundled a 1Gb Microdrive back with previous models in Japan. Time to build it in guys! 8)
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I was talking about their "world record breaking" 0.85" HDD. It's huge compared to this. 
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03-30-2004, 11:25 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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We are talking about BITS not BYTES (nor bites as well), so thats about 5 Terabytes (or 5,000 GB)
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03-31-2004, 04:55 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
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How many different readers with incompatible DRM schemes will we need to read the entire library in our pocket? :confused totally:
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