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12.8 Petabytes, You Say?
MadUndergrad writes "Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University has come up with a novel way to greatly increase data storage density: water. Specifically, they propose using hydroxyl ions to stabilize minute ferroelectric wires. These wires could be many times smaller than what is possible today, enabling data densities in the neighborhood of 12-13 PB per cubic centimeter. While there are still many problems to be resolved before drives using these can be manufactured this technology does seem promising. For one thing, it would be non-volatile, but could apparently be made to act as RAM. The fact that this is coming out of a university gives me hope that this technology won't turn out to be just so much vapor."
To me this idea sounds a little wet.
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It'd be pretty annoying if you came back from a run/heavy night's drinking (delete as suits you) and accidentally drank the backup of all your MP3s and pr0n to rehydrate you...
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I can't believe they would be so irresponsible as to use dihydrogen monoxide for data storage. That stuff is deadly!
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this technology won't turn out to be just so much vapor.
Until the heat sink fails.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
"The fact that this is coming out of a university gives me hope that this technology won't turn out to be just so much vapor."
You haven't attended university on our planet, have you?
Best tasting mineral water I've ever had! Has a funny aftertaste though...
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Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song
Thats great until during that 100 millenia you encounter the next Ice Age, it freezes stopping its data transfer to only playing one song, "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher
- for eternity.
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called that spreadsheet!!
.xls files containing "2006 budget"
User: Hey Clippy search for
Clippy: I see, you want me to spend the rest of eternity searching 13 petabytes for your stupid spreadsheet??! I quit!! User: This maybe the first effective way to get rid of that little twerp.
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You underestimate just how much pr0n I have, my good Spade.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Does this mean that the operating temp range will be 32F - 212F (0C-100C)?
I would have said, If this is vaporware I'd be steamed...
I suppose this will give a whole new meaning to the term "The computer froze up"!
Will we litterally need a bit bucket for overflow?
I better stop now.
...But for some reason when I plugged it in my computer started shooting sparks out of the USB port.
What did I do wrong?
But for me this idea doesn't hold water.
So if you don't want to lose the contents of your RAM I guess you just stick it in the freezer?
Do I see on the horizon a new implementation of PERL's freeze() and thaw() ??
Meh - maybe in PERL 6...
The Cubic Centimeters are the real secret to high density storage!
They just give you lots of little boxes to pour your data into. When you fill up about 10 of 'em, you just slap some duck tape on them, scribble a half-ass lable with a tiny magic marker, pack it into your Tonka truck with about 10 others, and push it to the other side of the data center. I call this last part the Tonka Transport Layer (TTL), and it offers the highest transfer rates in the history of networking!
The RFC requires that you make 'VROOM! VROOM!' noises and smash it into at least one cow-orker's foot along the way. My 5 year old has already mastered this technology.