Slashdotted yesterday, a 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive ? If mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga Then peta is 1,024 times tera !
A story at P2P.net US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, says he’s the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn ultimately 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. According to the article, In the past, data storage has only been able to orient the direction a field of electrons as they move around a molecule, Thomas said. “But now there’s a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule,” he says. He expects a finished product to be on the market in about four to five years, adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each.”
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