Comments on: The 500,000 GB MP3 Player

By: Hildr

Hildr — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:02:34 +0000

im holding out for the Tb ipod

By: Bex

Bex — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:51:07 +0000

That is the beauty of this technology, the read/write speeds are thos of the electron!

By: Colm

Colm — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:53:00 +0000

this kinda thing will be used by large corporations, data centres, research etc. I still havn't filled my 60gb ipod yet…

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:47:14 +0000

Two more things about storage:
1: A big holdback in industry is the "idea" that we never have enough space. We get people working on deleting and/or archiving to cd financial and text records. Man hours are still being put into worry over "disk space". Meanwhile, my work email is limited to 100MB; I'm rolling through that many times a year. Disk space has been irrelevant in terms of text and data for years. This experimental technology just sinks it 5'11" deeper.

2: One of these chips at 500 tb will not be enough for a trip to the holodeck (a la Startrek). Movies could be on their way to holoprojected 3d environments combined with tastes and smells or whatever. Could it be on a "pocket device" like an MP3 player, sure, but it will be hooked to my jacked up IMAX quality eyeglasses and my Sensall 1200(tm) full immersion body suit, or wirelessly transmitted to a jack in somebody's brain (not mine thanks.)

I say bring on the storage and lets get creating and experiencing.

Ed

By: DarkMasterHalo

DarkMasterHalo — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:08:44 +0000

Oh and for information, 1 Exibyte = 1024 Petabytes, which 1 Petatype = 1024 Terabytes, so we don't need Ext5 yet. I don't think we will see 1 Exibyte Hard drive soon with the type of hard drive we have now. We will see the 1 Exibyte technology with holographic hard drive. Just check it. I don't trust this technology as if there is a power surge, it destroy any data on it. This is not the case of Sata/IDE hard drive. Corportation will always prefer Real Hard drive as they can retrieve information of a highly damaged HDD.

Take care !

By: DarkMasterHalo

DarkMasterHalo — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:04:13 +0000

We don't need Ext5 yet because Ext4 is supporting 1 Exibyte of volume and file size. Just inform before asking for a new technology that already exist :P. Soon I'll get Fedora 9 on Mai 13, which is with Ext4 support.

By: casper911ca

casper911ca — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:58:16 +0000

Why?
I dont think I even have enough Videos to fill something like that! I only have about 12G of music.

What are you going to store on it? The human genome plus a few other things... like the whole internet, haha.

By: surfed

surfed — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:09:06 +0000

That means we have to design a new file-system. ext5 anybody?

By: Jelle De Loecker

Jelle De Loecker — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:21:14 +0000

I agree.
Let's forget about the mp3-bit, they only put it there so people could understand how much space it actually is, it can be of so much better use!

I would love to have so much space for my video-editing. Forget about HDV, AVCHD (and the entire x.264 stuff) let's go totally lossless!

By: ultraelectromagnetic

ultraelectromagnetic — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:18:22 +0000

interesting.
can't they come up with a technology that can record every thing that has happened in your life the whole of your lifetime? i wonder how large the file size would be (depends on reached age), coz i'm thinking that's one thing one can put in that kind of storage.
well, anyway, you have these kind of technologies and humanity surely is quickly approaching godhead ala daneel olivaw in the foundation series of i. asimov

hmmm..