The owner of Colossal Storage, Michael Thomas, 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!

1.2 Petabyte is a hell lot of space!
For those of you who don't know:
1.2Petabyte = 1 228.8Terabyte = 1 258 291.2Gigabyte

The 1.2Petabyte Hard Disk is expected to be finished within 4 to 5 years from now and would cost approximately $750USD for 1

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520 of these COULD hold the whole internet! As of 2002, the internet was 532,897 TB according to the article i read somewhere.

This post has been edited by RoKeR: Mar 19 2006, 01:20 PM

Wow, that is really cheap. If you think of it, in about 7 or 8 years time we will have these hard dise for maybe 100-200$. Now it looks so awesome, but useless. Nobody really needs something that big, at least not for personal use. On the other hand, who knows what kind of systems and files we will have in the future!

1.2PB????
Wow, that's exactly what I need, maybe even a bit more ... I just hope he doesn't changes his mind on the pricing, for US$750 I would surely buy one of those

Yeah, that sound great! But, is $750 a price that's too low to be true.

WoW.. i mean WOW.. this is really impressive.. Im pretty sure that this hard drives will be coming to public soon.. But i doubt people will buy this because of its prize..

but imagine, webhosting providers would need only 1 HDD that is soo awesome, I just cant wait this to be built, I would probably be first one to buy it, and make my own webhosting

Thinks about GOOGLE... how would their reaction be to this development. I would not be surprised if Google and all the other search engine giants would be the first ones to offer it.

It is JUST WOW!

Imagine.. you can actually install all the Operating Systems to date in it and yet have enough space to install 10 times as many.!!!

Isn't that just great?

AND More yet.. who knows that within these years we might have softwares as big as 50-90 GB each!!!

IOn order to have software thats 50-90gb, you'd need to have people MAKING that much data for each piece of software, meaning you'd be paying ALOT of money for that software

But yea this would truly be some awesome stuff, and the $750 price tag seems pretty genious to me. It's expensive enough to have a solid profit on each drive sold (excluding the research costs the materials probably aren't worth alot) and still have them start being sold by the millions. If he released petabyte drives for under a grand a pop, he'd knock the bottom out of the HD industry and bring down the competetors pretty damn quickly. Sure he could make as much money selling way less for a huge sum of money... but if he keeps it surprisingly low he won't have to worry about much in the way of competition Regardless, can't wait to see if this tech works as promsied.

well as quick as we are figuring out ways to store more data in a small amount of space, we are equally as fast to make bloated and inefficient software (*cough* windows). So what I would like to know is, when the time comes that 1.2 PB drives are mass marketed, how different will this storage boon really be to our current predicament? I mean, certainly we cannot use our current space requirements as a measurement for a device that won't even be available for 4-5 years (optimistically). That's an eternity in computing. We could have double/tripled/(some ludicrous factor)ed our data storage needs by then!

Ah ... a dream come true . Where can I get mine?

Finally, I'll be able to download the internet as was my childhood dream .