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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1.2PTB!?

[TechnoGuyRob]

Where am I going to find that much porn?

Whatever

[TiggertheMad]

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

Don't be silly, dude. Everyony knows that Duke Nukem Forever is a Myth...

Party like it's 1999

[EmagGeek]

This article is purely ridiculous. There is no way in hell we could hope to even identify a discrete electron, let alone manipulate its spin. We know of electrons as being in clouds, clouds of a probablistic nature. We know where the electrons are LIKELY to be, but we can't know where an electron IS. You can give an atom a kick of energy that exceeds the first ionization energy of the atom and strip off a RANDOM electron, but that's the end of it.

Electrons in this probablistic cloud also change their spins and exchange energy all the time, so even if you could change the spin of one, it would just change again almost immediately..

This is the kind of crap that startups would come up with - lots of big scientific words that VCs didn't understand, mixed in with almost insane notions of a technological leap.

In 1999, you could walk into a VC's office talking about how you would "apply a modified fourier process to faraday's law to stochastically manipulate the probablistic properties of non-ionized electrons to gain a quantum leap in bit densities, resulting in a 1000 fold increase in syncronous dynamic bit densities in a RAM chip" and walk out with $2million in cash, with which you would proceed first to the local LL-Bean store for some sandals and then to the BMW dealership. The, all you'd have to do is pay yourself $100k/year to pretend to do research, and then when it's all dried up, disappear to some tropical island.

Looks like we have it all over again lately.

Re:That's nothing

[aventius]

You best not be mocking Chuck Norris. He WILL roundhouse kick, just before giving you the moral of the story.