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Who needs Blu-ray when we got (or will get) multi-terabyte USB sticks?
Quote:Terabyte nanotech thumb drives around the corner?

Wired has a write-up of a new storage technology developed at Arizona State University that could produce flash thumb drives capable of storing terabytes of data in the near future, that also happens to be cheaper and more energy efficient than flash memory. The new technology has been branded programmable metallization cell, and differs from present storage technologies in that it "creates nanowires from copper atoms the size of a virus to record binary ones and zeros." It all sounds very interesting -- if slightly too optimistic -- to us, and wee'll get to find out relatively soon just how effective the new chips are: Arizona State's business arm has licensed the technology to three companies, which may be ready to sell a product containing the chips within 18 months. Watch this space.
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28/10/2007 01:55 AM
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O man that's so cool ,. !!
Would like to know about read write speed!?
Harddrives are so slowwwwww,..


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Things just get smaller and smaller,

I read this is 1,000 times as energy efficient as flash memory and one-tenth the cost,

Looks like wee will be seeing some super sized storage in small devices in the near future,

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28/10/2007 03:23 AM
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what's that 5 terrabyte psp lol

sonys go to seriously update there psps to handle that

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28/10/2007 03:27 AM
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i don think sony can
well i guess that will put hard disk maker out of business

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18 Months? i seriously doubt that.

Think of how long it took for BluRay to come out... A lot of testing and stuff will be required, and that will take time.




Anyways, so which will be bigger. This, or the 50TB protein disks...    http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...p?tid=1375
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Blu-Ray had to deal with getting a whole lot of companies to support its new format and HD-DVD a competing format.

All they have to do is just add a USB adaptor to the chip and voila they have a product that can be sold and used by anyone.

But I highly doubt it'll happen considering how complex it sounds. Not to mention there will be a need to update operating systems.

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i hope it does happen and wee start shifting away from disc type media.... it aways gets scratched up.... solid state memory is the best.. no heads to crash, no laser to misalign, no surface to scratch.. get rid of hard disk and cds in the next 10 years i hope

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AzumiUehara Wrote:i hope it does happen and wee start shifting away from disc type media.... it aways gets scratched up.... solid state memory is the best.. no heads to crash, no laser to misalign, no surface to scratch.. get rid of hard disk and cds in the next 10 years i hope

Agreed.

I know CDs can have a shelf life of a century or two but I can't go a whole year without scratching up my CDs.

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AzumiUehara Wrote:i hope it does happen and wee start shifting away from disc type media.... it aways gets scratched up.... solid state memory is the best.. no heads to crash, no laser to misalign, no surface to scratch.. get rid of hard disk and cds in the next 10 years i hope

Look at the expenses side.

Solid state memory is expensive. Optical disks are cheap. Thus optical disks will always be around.

Unless it gets a LOT cheaper, u would not want that to happen.

|-Anubis-| Wrote:I know CDs can have a shelf life of a century or two but I can't go a whole year without scratching up my CDs.

CDs shelf life isn't that good. They deteriorate over time. Won't last even close to a century.
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