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!"

Comments

Re:Yawn

[Com2Kid]

AC thus spoke:

This is already obsolete. Terabytes of information on a creditcard sized medium have been announced years ago.

And it was replied:

Along with anti-gravity, ways to earn infinate money, and the secret of eternal youth.

The only difference is that this announcement comes from an actual lab with people who have actual degrees.

1TB iPod

[i1984]

I can't wait for my 1 terabyte iPod!

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.