A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive?

Angry_Admin writes "Rather than spend millions of dollars for an array of hard drives when you can have all that storage on just one drive? A story at P2P.net US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn ultimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage, to be exact. According to the article, In the past, data storage has only been able to orient the direction a field of electrons as they move around a molecule, Thomas said. "But now there's a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule," he says. He expects a finished product to be on the market in about four to five years, adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each."

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Just A Second

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I've already got one of these. It's right between my cold fusion device and my copy of Duke Nukem Forever.

Blast from the past

[suso]

Sounds kinda like American Computer Company

Star Trek?

[77Punker]

"But now there's a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule"

Yeah, they do the stuff with the electrons using Heisenberg compensators.

Re:Star Trek?

[cgenman]

Looks legitamate to me.

It is a simple question of getting your entangled particle encryption to spin your atomic holographic optical nanostorage drive in an accredited OLED Display_n_Store handheld device reader, thus creating standing quantum waves in the ferroelectric perovskite molecules. With sufficient surface conduction, why, you could induce resonant absorption excitation via plasmon photonic bandgap crystals. Just think of high-k dipole dielectric material that can then be made reversible with non-dissipative power, all thanks to the Einstein / Plank theorem of Energy Quantum!

This unique nanotechnology will set the stage for the 5 exabytes of new data generated every year world wide and growing through molecular dissociation.

This assumes, of course, that you have a capacitor of sufficient size to handle 1.21 jigawatts of flux.

To answer the question

[harmonica]

A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive?

No, 640 TB should be enough for everyone.

Re:A million times?

[grub]

Um... 1.2 PB is definitely *not* "a million times the capacity of any hard drive", unless you're still stuck with 1.2 GB hard drives.

The author was probably using Imperial Petabytes, not Metric Petabytes.

Obligatory Jokes:

[thomble]

"Finally, I don't need to trim down my porn collection!"
"Finally, I can cache the internet!"
"The hard drive racket will never let this see the light of day!"
"RAI(E)D: Redundant Array of Insanely Expensive Disks."
"Now, if he was talking about RAM, I'd be impressed."

"B-B-B-But Moore said!...."

Price

[professorfalcon]

the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each

Is that before or after rebate?

If 2. did occur

[nightsweat]

Would you then have a peta- cemetary for your data?

Re:Predictions of "4-5 years away" never are

[ThomK]

how many times are we promised phenomenal increases in storage, processing power, batteries, etc that are only "4-5 years away"?

117.

colosalstorage.com Credibility?

[BigBlockMopar]

Oh my... I just went to their webpage. I haven't clicked anything, but their lack of product and development focus and the sheer incredulity of some of their products is reminiscent of the stuff advertised in the back of Mad Magazine. All they need is X-ray glasses, sea monkeys and a secret decoder ring. And a hoverconversion kit for 1981-1983 Delorean DMC-12 sports cars.

Re:Eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

2. So my PETABYTES of data don't all go down the tube at once.

At first I was thinking about all the pron I could store on it and the agony of it all being lost at once. Then I realized it might be a bad idea to have porn on a petabyte storage device. They would have to be stored in files and they might be called petafiles. This would suck! All my pron is over 18 (as thier sites say) but i'm not sure if some bible thumping do gooder would belive me if I associated with known petafiles.

Re:That's nothing

[aventius]

Chuck Norris has already invented all of these but is too humble to take any credit.

Re:That's nothing

[StikyPad]

I tried cutting and pasting your comment into your sig, but it's not working.