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A Terabyte of Data on a Laptop Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the pleasant-daydream dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:How much capacity is 57,000 songs? by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hm...

    1 Tb is 10^12 bytes right? Ok, not exactly, but the correct magnitude? :)

    1 * 10^12 / 57 * 10^3 = 17,543,859 bytes/song.

    So it seems the author is using 17 Mb mp3's or something... Must be one of those "wooo i need l33t 640kbps mp3z cuz 256kbps dont r0x0rz".

    Or it's just an approximation. :-)

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