Scottish researchers working on "nano-clusters" for data storage

We were pretty impressed when Toshiba and Samsung began producing
4GB 0.85-inch hard drives earlier this year, but that's nothing compared with what researchers at Glasgow University are working on. The team is developing nano-clusters —
clusters of molecules 10,000 times thinner than a human hair — that they say could be used to create next-gen data-storage that could cram "10,000 more 'storage units' into a given area than is currently possible." That would pump that 0.85-inch drive up to 40TB. Deets are sketchy, so we're taking a wait-and-see on this, but that won't stop us from thinking about how we could fill all that space. Let's see, that's 10 million songs, 8,000 movies, the Library of Congress ...

[Via OnlineBlog]