Imagine having every version of every game that ever existed on a single hard drive. Now imagine that hard drive being small enough to fit in a DS-style device: http://www.hiptechblog.com/2006/05/11/fancy-a-million-gigabtye-hard-drive So, think it will ever get mass produced?
OMG... 12.8 MILLION GB?!!?!?!??!?! Lets see, thats 12800 TB. So, I guess you could say thats 12.8 Petabytes. Insane. Why wont it get massed produced? More space = more awesome!
Holy crap, that would rule. I could put all my games, music (a whole drawer full of CDs from 15 years of collecting,) dvds (I have like 200 dvds,) everything I have all on that. Insane.
That is quite impressive. Reminds me of that Holographic optical disc that puts Blu-ray to shame. It's nice to see technology is still progressing.
Don't get too excited. What that article hints at but doesn't explicitly say is that this has been proven possible in a lab. It'll be ages before this technology actually hits the market, if it is deemed viable at all.
Yes, it is still an academic process and has a long way to go. Doesn't mean that it won't happen, but it will take some time.
can you imagine how long it would take to format a hd that big! it take a few hours to format a 200 gig drive so it would take about a week to do that one lol
with quickformat that could be reduced to some days and at 12 petabyte i wouldnt care they could sell those even preformated and partitionated at 500 gig :evil:
formatting something like that would be as easy as inserting it in the proper electromagnetic field. Maybe format machines will come by then, where you insert a disk and it resets the diodes with the use of the field, instead of passing it with a mechanical arm. In essence it could format the whole disk at the same time. Regarding breakthroughs.. I ve heard about too many technologies that were announced at an early theoretical state could never be stabilized to be consumer products. From the details of the subject at hand, and with some lab experience (lab to industrial manufacturing) it's easy to see that such a process is at least 10 years away from completion at a testing level, never mind actual market circulation.
How many drive letters would that take???? I dont see much use for it really. Well not right now anyway. I guess there is a big use for it in banks and other places where they need to store huge amounts of data but most people wouldnt need more then 500-1000 gigs installed in their dells for the next few years to come.
I could see it being used in big companies 1st. It would be a while until the average Joe could afford such storage. Does anyone remember when 1gig HD seemed almost inconceivable to fill up completely?
Ten years away ain't so bad. If this came out next year it would probably cost way to much for the average consumer.
