10.800GB solid state storage soon !!!!!!!

[Czar]

Hopefully
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13841.html


<< UK boffins reckon they can cram 10,800GB of data on a PC card
By: Lucy Sherriff
Posted: 09/10/2000 at 12:47 GMT


New techniques for achieving high-density solid state storage are better than the inventors thought.

As reported last year on El Reg, researchers at Keele University discovered a &quot;three-dimensional&quot; memory system. This, they thought, would enable 2.3 TB of data to be crammed on to a PC card sized device.

However, the latest figures are in the region of 10.8 TB for a device of that size - more than four times the original value.

According to Mike Downey, head of Cavendish Management Resource, which is handling the commercial issues associated with the technology, the research also applies to DVD style storage media, &quot;That figure has also been revised upwards: to 245GB on a single sided device,&quot; he said.

CMR said that it is involved in a frenzy of patent filing at the moment, so expect more news soon. ®
>>



As you hopefully remember that the old technology that could store 245GB only costs around $34 to produce.

 

[snow patrol]

Wow, now that's a hell of a lot of MP3's

 

[shabby]

Pfft who cares, until that drive actually comes out its all vaporware.

 

[AndrewR]

No more rpms to worry about.

 

[HigherGround]

well, before it does come out someone has to announce it, so it is a big deal.

 

[Bakwetu]

About time, took htem long enough seriously, what would you do with that huge amount of space?

 

[Topochicho]

Bakwetu:

<< About time, took htem long enough seriously, what would you do with that huge amount of space? >>



Porn, Porn, Porn, and more porn! Also a couple Mp3s.

Or you could do a complete install of MS Visual Studio 6.0. The partial install of VC++ 6.0 I have on my machine takes up 800MB if you include the installed help files.

 

[superbaby]

Man I would love to have a harddrive like that. I have 102GB total space and frankly I knew I was gonna fill it. I have about 5GB left total. I'm sure someone will find a way to fill all that space. I'm sure you could get all the porn from every single culture and there'd still be room for some alien porn =)

Speaking of Visual Studio... I can't get mine to install. I had it installed before on E: drive, but I removed that drive and I tried to install it again on G:, but it keeps failing, any ideas?

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

I dont know how the fvck you would fill 102gb of space. I generally dont have any problems with my 27 whatsoever... Only my small partition ever gets full.

 

[Bakwetu]

&quot;&quot;Porn, Porn, Porn, and more porn! Also a couple Mp3s.

alright, after you have nude pictures of all the women in the world and all the music that was ever produced, then what?

 

[Pretender]

I've only got 28 in total, and despite Visual C++, and about 10 games full installed (approx. 600 MB each), 1 GB of mp3s, 2-3GB of porn, and other assorted stuff, I've still got about 8 GB left. I don't see how you people use up so much space.

 

[Topochicho]

Yaaaaa... Alien porn... show me your tenticles baby!

superbaby: sorry never beentheredonethat.



<< alright, after you have nude pictures of all the women in the world and all the music that was ever produced, then what? >>


Never leave my house again.

 

[TheNemesis]

i havent even filled up my 6 gig yet...

 

[Adul]

MOVIES! LOTS OF MOVIES!

 

[GAZZA]

hmmm as nice as it may seem to have that size of storage i'm sure one of the big HD co's would try their damndest to squash it asap , after all it would seriously threaten their positions in the HD/Storage market.
I know one guy on these forums that has 30gigs of p0rn alone!

 

[RSI]

20.5GB hd here... I could fill it up very easily, but at the moment I have 7.75GB free, and I don't really have much installed. Multiple operating systems is what takes up the most, I think. I have approximately 1.46GB of MP3s (not many songs, 230 or so). I have a few games installed.. Half Life, Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena and StarCraft (CD copied to HD).

I could fill up the rest of it, but really it's pointless. All I need is an OS (or two or three), room for music and a few messenging apps, email, internet, etc, and I'm all set. Every now and then I pop in the programming utils (msvc, vb, yattyattya), but even that doesn't take up much.

100+GB would take me quite a while to fill, at this point. Especially with my faulty CDROM and 56k connection.

 

[Howard]

You should edit that thread title to 10 800, the dot (.) made it seem like 10.8GB, ahh who cares about that.

 

[OptikalW]

If there were DVD-style storage that could store 245+GB then movies that would take full advantage of a computer monitors abilities to achieve the best quality possible would be able to fit onto 1 disc. For example, a standard 19&quot; monitor can go up to 1600x1200 resolution, for a standard 120 min movie at 24-bit(3 bytes per pixel) color, 1600x1200 resolution, 30 frames/sec that would take (3 * 1600 * 1200 * 30 * 60 * 120) = 1244160000000 bytes or 1244.16GB of raw data to store. Currently you can take a movie from a DVD and compress it to the size of CD using MPEG-4 Compression, but compressing it loses quality (albeit, its not a very noticeable loss) and it's nowhere close to 1600x1200 resolution. With a 245GB DVD a 2 hour movie at 1200x1600 resolution could easily be stored with perfect quality, a task previously unimaginable with current storage mediums.

 

[BigToque]

10.8 TB... hmmmm

*Download pages for offline viewing*

*Enter website to download: [http://]*

*How many links deep do you wish to go? [100,000,000]*

*You have selected to download the Internet. Continue? (y/n): [y]*

*Select destination: [c:\recycled\]

*The world gasps in horror as Stefan sends the Internet to the Recycle Bin*

 

[RSI]

Stefan, LMAO!!

 

[Soccerman]

&quot;big HD co's would try their damndest to squash it asap&quot;

no, the big HD companies are in constant competition in terms of Speed and size. they'll jump on this as soon as it's feasable.

I wonder what kind of 3D storage system they are talking about? holograms? I wouldn't be surprised..

point a laser at any one spot on a CD created with holographic technology in mind, and you can get a page of data (rather then 1 bit).

however this is supposedly solid state.. it could still be using holographic tech, just a question of how!

I've got to wonder what kind of speed will come out of this monster.. the whole point of Solid state is SPEED!

 

[Maximus22]

How fast are these things anyways?

 

[Finality]

88 Gigs here, with 17 going for mp3s. Yes I do listen to 90% of them.

 

[Do'Urden]

I've got a total of about 75gigs and I'm in serius trouble. If I don't get to buy some more CD's to write, I'll have no space left.

I was down to under 500megs free yesterday, I need more CD's.

 

[Toolman]

LOL Stefan!!