Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2

DeAshcroft writes "As reported in Technology Research News, researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation have demonstrated a prototype ferroelectric (as opposed to ferromagnetic) storage mechanism with density of 1.5 trillion dots per square inch. No word on why Japanese researchers are using square inches, but the new storage benchmark is the DVD. This is 47 DVD's in a square inch, or over 20KiloDVD's per square cubit. Original paper appeared in the Applied Physics Letters." In related memory news, an Anonymous Coward writes "It appears the the ever present pause between photo's on a digital camera might finally be fixed. A company now claims http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C1396/ ) to have kicked up the write speed on a compact flash card up to 4MB/sec. This means we lesser photographers can now get the right action shot just by volume alone ;-)"

Comments

Re:bad journalism alert

[Afrosheen]

Well, at least you can get rid of Jon Katz in your preferences, that kills about 75% of the bad journalism.

Flashy and useless...

[Kattana]

this kinda storage might be the future of computers but unless they improve the read speed fast it will be useless. According to my calculations it would take more then 2 years to back up your 1 inch^2 drive! I rather have a drive i can actualy use.

Re:Is this really important?

[Atzanteol]

At least right now what type of applications would this be good for? Do we really need that much storage? Perhaps if programmers wrote better code........... Then again remember when 2megs of memory was "the bomb" ?

*ahem*
Fuck Off!

There. I just know everyone else was thinking that, and someone had to say it. I'm so incredibly sick of all these "why do we need anything better?" morons that I could just scream. Sure, troll, flamebait, whatever. Just gotta release every-now-and-then! :-)