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[megabytemb]

hey i read in some windows xp magazine that scientists over in America made a 30000 terabyte hard drive by using nano technology and adding believe it or not, water to the hard drive.
how sick would it be to have a hdd that BIG

[SamiFX]

of course I'll believe it ... everything is believable in technology

[Dagoth Nereviar]

Wow, think of all the por.....tions of things you could have on there >.> <.< >.>

Just kidding But that would be GREAT to have So much space!

[t3jem]

Wow, you could totally store 5% of the internet on that harddrive! Haha, if I had that harddrive i'd never run out of space.

[Kubi]

And how quickly will this thing fail? From what I hear from friend with experience on bigger harddrives, the bigger, the faster they fail.

I think 30000TB's is a little overkill...Nice little price tag on that one though.

[csp4.0]

but still insignificant to the amount of storage rapidshare has, but how big is it? the size of a house? the size of a mouse? this may seem large now, soon we'll begin to see 2.5" disks at a capacity of mmm lets see, x decabytes?

[Carson]

I think that the size of hardrives will increase so much that people will just stop talking about them, because they are so big you will never run out of space, so there will be no need to talk about them. Who honestly needs a 30000 tereabyte hardrive? You would a fast computer to go with it, because it would take ages for all the files to load. And you would spend hours searching through your files, because you wouldnt need to delete anything.

[velma]

Wow 30000 TB...... Wonder what I would have to put in there to fill it up. Honestly I do not have that much information that I would ever get tempted to buy that.

Besides like csp4.0 has mentioned wonder how big is it going to be? But honestly 30000 TB is not gonna be an attraction for the common man.

Maybe places that need to have a lot of records can use it. Is it vulnerable? Kubi has a good point there.

All these points will be thought over before it is sold I guess

[SamiFX]

t3jem, on Aug 28 2007, 02:07 AM, said:

Wow, you could totally store 5% of the internet on that harddrive! Haha,

you couldn't store even 0.0005% of the internet on that harddrive... even only RapidShare .. just think of YouTube servers how they are..

[ImageFilez.com]

Yes 30000 TB will seriously rock, I have just plan to stuff whatever junk on that disk. Also can imagine the number of partitions I can make with this kind of huge space

[odomike]

I know, like you guys said, that it would be real gr8 to have a HDD of that capacity. But, just think of this, after packing every damn information and file you can ever think of in there and once upon a time.....BOOOOOOM..... it crashes. Now taht aint gonna sound funny to anyone at all. Anyways, no one prays for that though.

It sure would be real great but I kinda dont really believe that. How can you put water in a HDD? or is the water meant to be some sort of cooling system for the HDD?

that will be real kool though and hard to maintain (so I think).

[dre]

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It sure would be real great but I kinda dont really believe that. How can you put water in a HDD? or is the water meant to be some sort of cooling system for the HDD?

I don't think it was made out of conventional hard drive materials. This is probably some bionic contraption, like the DNA computer, something of that sort.

[9block]

I believe that is 30 PB? Which is a PetaByte, as according to wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte

Now 30PB could come in some serious handiness. Im sure if you had a 30PB hard drive... alot of companies would sponse you a Gigabit connection to allow them to use your harddrive as a server (database). With that, they would store their data (rapidshare has 2.4PB which isnt all used) and you would also have a nice connection provided it wasn't maxed out all the time. If you was, I'm sure you could limit the connectivity and save 10mbit (1,000kb/s download) to yourself.

Im quite the thinker... thats my little scheme. You would receieve from 10mbit connection no matter what... and possibly faster depending on how much you would want to borrow and conserve. More importantly, out of the 30PB you could allocate a certain amount for yourself.. lets say 1/100th of a Pb (10TB) which is still plenty.

[acantocephala]

megabytemb, on Aug 27 2007, 01:02 PM, said:

hey i read in some windows xp magazine that scientists over in America made a 30000 terabyte hard drive by using nano technology and adding believe it or not, water to the hard drive.
how sick would it be to have a hdd that BIG

It's hard to believe... where did you read that? It think I'm going to start to save some money to buy the next iPod with 30000 TB oh harddisk capacity How many mp3's!!!!

[Saint_Michael]

I thought I get my two cents in since google nor yahoo pulled up a search result for this yet, it would seem to be at this time all fluff at this moment since the author failed to mention the name magazine or scan the article to read more into it. Now as for server hard drive space the most I have seen at any given time or heard about is running in the 500Gb - 3 TB per hard drive per rack, and depending on the size of the server rack (ball park figured) anywhere from 10-30Tb per rack. Of course with that being said I have to start looking at server technology just to get basics down for that.

Now with that being said and of course the price tag which is unknown ($10K-$20+), I would say this would have to be the very impractical for any home user and be primarily used to replace old server technology. Even then who is going to risk spending the cash for something that if damaged the right way would have to be trashed completely? However, dre would have to be correct and that this hard drive is something completely new set up (add about another $35K-$30K to it), in a which that the hard drive would #1 always be cool, #2 have the best security protocols on earth, and #3 be very hard to damage. To finish up though we need more information fro mthat article to get a better idea what this 30K TB hard drive is all about

[megabytemb]

its the size of a normal hdd but when it gets released it would be like 10 grand but sooner or l8er u would fill it it up
i r member when i though i would never use a gig when comp's first came out
sims 2 will soon become a 5 TB game
it would most likely come out in 2020 or something???
ps: i couldn't find the mag it was in i have millions lol

Edited by megabytemb, 31 August 2007 - 12:00 PM.

[9block]

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I thought I get my two cents in since google nor yahoo pulled up a search result for this yet, it would seem to be at this time all fluff at this moment since the author failed to mention the name magazine or scan the article to read more into it

Just for you I researched it a bit and came up with a lab that is using halographic storage methods... and this is what I came up with...

Story 1... "Add water and get 12.8 Petabyte on 1cm² "

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If they would be able to make this invention work commercially you would according to Jonathan Spanier be able to create a memory that can store 12.8 Petabyte (12.8 million gigabyte) on 1 square centimeter.

Source: http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/07/...&frame=true


Story 2...

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A FIRM which makes a disc that can hold 60 times more data than a DVD said it is ready to release the product next year.

InPhase Technologies, based in Colorado, has developed a commercially viable version of a holographic disc which can hold 300 gigabytes of data and can be used to read and write data 10 times faster than a normal DVD.

InPhase Technologies spokesperson Liz Murphy said that unlike other technologies that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light. This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage device.

The discs, are 13 centimetres across and a little wider than normal DVDs. They store data in a light-sensitive crystal material using the interference of laser light. A single light beam is split and passed through a semi-transparent material. This acts like a filter, changing different parts of the beam to encode bits of information

Source: http://www.abovetops...hread185529/pg1


there are two completely different stories I had no problem finding... and you guys should definately read the first one. I assume that's what this thread is talking about.

[reconraiders]

Hmm... that is a lot of space. It might come in handy for a web server. Too bad you would need an insane computer to be able to search through all that space in a timely manner. I'd rather just stick with a network of smaller HDDs. Faster and more efficient I think - considering the technology available currently. Man... I have a 20GB hard drive and I still have plenty of space. And I am running Visual Studio.NET with the whole MSDN Library. And we all know how much memory that takes up!!! Damn you Microsoft! Memory hoggers! Having a 30PB hard drive would just allow microsoft to create even more memory consuming software. Just imagine Microsoft Office 2020 - required HD space - 980TB required RAM 128TB...

[megabytemb]

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Just for you I researched it a bit and came up with a lab that is using halographic storage methods... and this is what I came up with...

thanks i thought it would be on the net somewhere lol
i my memory is bad. its heaps bigger then i thought

[minimcmonkey]

I find it hard to fill 100GB in a year, I dont think anyone could use 10TB without trying very hard for a long time, with a fast internet connetction, and a lot of full DVDs. But 3000TB would just be stupidly large, who could possibly fill it up? Although research like that is useful, as it would be good it they made smaller ersion like 20TB, which would bo more than you would ever need but not quite as extreme as 3000TB!

[Forte]

I have had my 30Gb hard drive for 5 years now, I've still only used a bit over half. The only reason anyone could ever, ever, EVER need 30,000Tb of space is if they're wanting to save the history of the world and the universe up to 50 billion years ago in AVI format. (A bit overkill, I admit, but effective)

I would love to find a use for the huge hard drives that seem to be so massively popular today, but I can't really think of anything that one person could do with that much space. Maybe people who are really into making movies and saving them or something... As for me, I'm fine with at most 100Gb.

[RandB]

Sounds un real and apparently the scientists in America have found out how to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sun light so *cough*bull*cough* If it is real imagine defragmenting it =0

[miladinoski]

I don't believe we'd actually need that much of space in 30 years...

Oh, wait! Well, Bill Gates had a similar prediction, so I'll take mine down

Hope no one sees this! I'd actually keep my all of pr0n collection overthere!

[laniczech]

with alot of companies and individuals moving to online storage, I would think buying a harddrive that size would be more expensive than just paying a low monthly fee to store your files

[rpgsearcherz]

Well, something to keep in mind is that you guys are comparing the size of the HDD to the stuff that we use right now.

In all actuality, the size demans will increase as time goes along as well.

For example, I remember when I was a kid, putting 8-9 full games on a floppy diskette(1.44 mb's) and now there are games(Age of Conan) that take up over 30 GB's of space.

For another example, look at videos. Whereas normal DVD's hold 4.7 or 8.5 GB's(I think DL is 8.5?) Blue Ray holds over 40 GB's. Yet a Blue Ray movie will take up the entire disc.

So really, as our quality of information(Graphics, clarity, etc.) goes up, so will our demand for more and more space.

It's perfectly logical that when the 30k TB drives come out to the public, we'll be sitting there saying "Man...I ran out of space already. Only had the drive for 3 days too!"