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A Terabyte of Data on a Laptop Hard Drive
KaosConMan writes: "TechnologyReview.com has an article describing a new technique being developed by General Electric and IBM to further decrease the size needed to magnetically store data. This new technique could produce 150 gigabits per square centimeter-- that's ~57,000 songs on an iPod or a terabyte on a laptop size hard drive!"
I wonder
1. how much does that thing heat up
2. how in hell I'm going to back up a terabyte from my laptop. I already have there too many things that I care about (I do backups on cd-rw), but with a terabyte of data I'd better have two of them and go with raid.....
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20 meg hard drives should be enough for anyone. Anything more will just be wasted.
As in, if you use them or more than eight hours a day, do they die within three months like a half-dozen of my "deathstar" drives have done?
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Lets see...a 10GB iPod costs $399 -- that's $39.90 per gigabyte. So extrapolating to 1000 gigabytes...yes...we'll have a $39,900 iPod!
I'll take two of them; just let me find my checkbook. Oh shoot, I must have left it in the McLaren...I just hope it isn't in the Bentley. Well, I'll just have my chauffeur bring it 'round in the helicopter. Do you have a pen I could borrow?
The real question is whether this technology will be better (and cheaper!) than any other high capacity memory when it's (maybe) released in 2008.
I have my hopes pegged on static random access technology that doesn't depend on disk technology. Instant power on and no difference between storage and application memory are likely to be killer technologies.
...how many Libraries of Congress is it?
Wow! Think of how much Warez I could get off the Apple demo systems at Circuit City!
If this coincides with the latest microsoft windows release, there should be at least enough space left for britneyinvegas.jpg.
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...since you'll probably wait a couple of hours for the thing to finish formatting. And imagine backing that sucker up--I know that many don't have backups of our primary drive. Better get a large-capacity medium to do that.
In all honesty, it sounds like one of those leet haxor people talking.
I g0t me a l33t 1tb RAED dr1ve. I 0wn j00!
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"...57,000 songs on an iPod or a terabyte on a laptop size hard drive!"
...or about 28% of my porno collection. : )
Yes - the drive runs so hot it should be considered vaporware.
Heh. Sorry.
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