RoKeR
Mar 19 2006, 01:13 PM
| | 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 $750USD for 1
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520 of these COULD hold the whole internet! As of 2002, the internet was 532,897 TB according to the article i read somewhere. |
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pyost
Mar 19 2006, 09:44 PM
Wow, that is really cheap. If you think of it, in about 7 or 8 years time we will have these hard dise for maybe 100-200$. 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!
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Vash
Mar 20 2006, 03:03 AM
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 
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PureHeart
Mar 20 2006, 05:19 AM
Yeah, that sound great! But, is $750 a price that's too low to be true.
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jovencoronel
Mar 20 2006, 08:19 AM
WoW.. i mean WOW.. this is really impressive.. Im pretty sure that this hard drives will be coming to public soon.. But i doubt people will buy this because of its prize..
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finaldesign
Mar 20 2006, 08:39 AM
QUOTE(pyost @ Mar 19 2006, 10:44 PM) 
Wow, that is really cheap. If you think of it, in about 7 or 8 years time we will have these hard dise for maybe 100-200$. 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!
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 
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RoKeR
Mar 20 2006, 12:35 PM
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!!!
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Jeigh
Mar 20 2006, 01:15 PM
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.
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illini319
Mar 21 2006, 05:57 AM
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!
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abhiram
Mar 21 2006, 06:39 AM
Ah ... a dream come true . Where can I get mine? Finally, I'll be able to download the internet as was my childhood dream  .
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iGuest
Nov 3 2008, 03:12 PM
1.2 Petabyte Harddisk
1.2 Petabyte Harddisk
Replying to jovencoronelI download (archive) every thing. Music, movies, jpg, software, and web-sites thinks to three t4 connections. Of the 60.0TB I have used about 54.0-TB I do have problems with finding stuff. Need better organization. I have three computers with 21 1.0TB HDDs networked That gives me 60.0TBs of space. Non of them are setup as a RAID (cost me $27,000)
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RoKeR
Mar 25 2006, 03:43 AM
QUOTE(Transcendum @ Mar 24 2006, 10:21 PM)
Since I'm joining so late in the discussion, I first have to say "Good God, that's a lot of space!"
Of course, since the manufacturer already announced that this kind of storage is expected in 4-5 years, I supposed I shouldn't compare it to todays' requirements. I mean, yes, today even a TB Hard-disk may sound gigantic to some, but it really isn't. It's futile to imagine what kind of storage we will need in 2-3 years from now.
But still, I suppose that a PetaByte Hard-disk will be directed at the business sector first, since businesses are in real need for this kind of space. It doesn't mean that the public sector won't find it a yummy deal, either. I personally will most certainly get myself one of those bad boys.
And about the partitioning, I might as well do what I do now. A partition for each of my operating systems, and another partition having all the space left. I assume of course that in 4-5 years, processors won't have a problem dealing with such a huge partition, especially since the File Allocation System will most likely be updated to suit the new trend.
Anyway, if I'm to say only one thing about this new PetaByte Hard-disk, it'll be: "Baby, Come to Papa!"
That's one more guy who really has a positive attitude to the development of these HDD drives! I'm real happy!
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Transcendum
Mar 24 2006, 10:21 PM
Since I'm joining so late in the discussion, I first have to say "Good God, that's a lot of space!"Of course, since the manufacturer already announced that this kind of storage is expected in 4-5 years, I supposed I shouldn't compare it to todays' requirements. I mean, yes, today even a TB Hard-disk may sound gigantic to some, but it really isn't. It's futile to imagine what kind of storage we will need in 2-3 years from now. But still, I suppose that a PetaByte Hard-disk will be directed at the business sector first, since businesses are in real need for this kind of space. It doesn't mean that the public sector won't find it a yummy deal, either. I personally will most certainly get myself one of those bad boys. And about the partitioning, I might as well do what I do now. A partition for each of my operating systems, and another partition having all the space left. I assume of course that in 4-5 years, processors won't have a problem dealing with such a huge partition, especially since the File Allocation System will most likely be updated to suit the new trend. Anyway, if I'm to say only one thing about this new PetaByte Hard-disk, it'll be: "Baby, Come to Papa!"
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RoKeR
Mar 24 2006, 09:39 PM
QUOTE(organicbmx @ Mar 24 2006, 04:53 PM)
in the graphics and digital imaging field i can easily see that that could become really useful. ccd technology is getting better all the time. digital cameras could start shooting even bigger and better quality images that would need to be stored. if you can imagine a 50mb or 100mb or even 200mb photograph in the next few years [im pretty sure that we will get close to that] then you are going to be using much larger drives than now. also in the field of video the use of hd cameras for hd tv is going to use much more space. also with better scanner and suchlike archives of images or just drawings could be saved at much higher quality.
i think this storage excess void will be filled [at least partly] by less compression and higher quality images. which i certainly lok forward to.
You see.... IF Pictures can get soo advanced so as to have such huge file sizes... THINK about what other things might develop into... I mean... couple the pictures with the softwarez etc and i can almost guarnatee you that it wont be long after the release of the PB that we will soon be short of SPACE! 
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organicbmx
Mar 24 2006, 04:53 PM
in the graphics and digital imaging field i can easily see that that could become really useful. ccd technology is getting better all the time. digital cameras could start shooting even bigger and better quality images that would need to be stored. if you can imagine a 50mb or 100mb or even 200mb photograph in the next few years [im pretty sure that we will get close to that] then you are going to be using much larger drives than now. also in the field of video the use of hd cameras for hd tv is going to use much more space. also with better scanner and suchlike archives of images or just drawings could be saved at much higher quality. i think this storage excess void will be filled [at least partly] by less compression and higher quality images. which i certainly lok forward to.
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