http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://colossalstorage.net/
here we see they have been developing Ferroelectric densities of .2 to .5 Petabits = 200 to 500 Terabits sq. in. / 40 Petabits = 40,000 to 100 Petabits = 100,000 Terabits cu.cm. or 200,000 to 500,000 Gigabits sq.in. / 40,000,000 to 100,000,000 Gigabits cu.cm. with symmetrical read / write times of < 10 picoseconds for 100 year non-volatile storage having infinite rewrites.

although I have been watching this site for a few years and have yet to see real release dates, so maybe its just a pipe dream, albeit a nice one.
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Uh, I can think of at least 1 thing i'd rather get blown first...]]>Mar 1st 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
Unfortunately, we'll never get that in the US as long as the FCC has any say in the matter...]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 2nd 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
Have you ever read New Scientist.

There are lots of these stories there. How would you choose between them ? How about this one:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126975.500-future-tv-screens-seen-in-coffee-stains.html]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
http://i.gizmodo.com/5162264/coffee-stains-inspire-nanotech+infused-tv-screens-of-the-future]]>Mar 1st 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/

¹ Or as long as internet lasts.
]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Im sorry engadget, but this didn't have enough detail for me.

Otherwise, great reporting and i look forward to seeing "10TB/inch" F*** that big.]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126965.500-flexible-electronic-books-to-hit-market-soon.html

(Not trying to promote their site )]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
Hey, do you know that a silicon crystal has atomic spacing of approx 0.5nm - think of the possibilities! Yet we have to use lithography to pattern the silicon to give us something useful (like memory).

STM and AFM have been used for years now to demonstrate atomic scale storage, but no one seriously suggests this as a practical method.

What is needed is a read/write/erase mechanism, and also an addressing mechanism (ie how to find the data you are looking for). That is the development I'd like to hear about.

Also, I am always sceptical when the closing paragraph is how environmentally friendly the new tech is. No one worries about that really, as there are ways to deal with waste etc in the factory.]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
Just look at those numbers. 10TB per square inch. F***!]]>Mar 1st 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
tB =/ TB

10 tB = 1.25 TB]]>Mar 1st 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
And I thought I was going to have an awesome day after reading this : (]]>Mar 1st 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
Indeed]]>Mar 1st 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/What are precise molecules? Their orbiting adverbs have been stripped by grammar radiation....]]>Mar 1st 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Ever heard of portable HDDs??
They can get up to 500gb... for the portable ones...
LOTS OF PORN on those suckers...
but even more when nanoscale hdd come out!!!! =D]]>Mar 1st 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
As far as implementing it into computers, I don't really care too much, since the already cheap terabyte HDDs are far more storage than I'll ever need. Unless these guys tout much faster speeds.]]>Mar 1st 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
I had the choice between putting a 500Gb HDD in my MacMini, or a 32Gb SLC SSD...

i chose 0 seek times.]]>Mar 1st 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
Any chance of these idea-makers actually STICKING WITH ONE IDEA LONG ENOUGH TO SEE IT THROUGH?!?!?!?

Maybe I'll announce my new development of Terabytes of data saved on hairlike carbon nano-tube structures! All I need is a physicist to throw in a few more buzzwords and it's Grant-city!!!!!]]>Mar 1st 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/I'm sure i will be proven wrong in subsequent years but here goes:

With the approaching 45nm 4+ core CPUs, RAM of 8Gb+ and storage of 2Tb in personal computing, i think that we are approaching a point where programmers will not be able to fully make use of this power.

Example: Windows Vista requirements compared to Windows 7 requirements
Netbooks increasing popularity.

As far as im concerned, a document takes up 40kb, a picture takes up 2mb, an mp3 song takes up 5mb, a movie takes up 200mb or thereabouts.

With a pB drive, (1000 Tb, 1,000,000Gb) That would hold more documents, pictures, videos than i could ever look at properly in my life. And as i am very happy with the quality of my pictures, videos and songs, i dont feel the need for blowing them up to super HD levels where they do take up Gbs.]]>Mar 1st 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/>movie takes up 200mb or thereabouts
Where does this figure come from? The default screen resolution for an 5:4 TFT LCD monitor is 1280×1024.
720p video has 1280 horizontal pixels.
Therefore, currently, if you don't want the video to be upscaled (which would make it lose quality), you should get 720p video.
What kind of file size does a 720p movie have? A quick search shows me them at around 4GB if they're encoded with x264 video, DTS/AC3 audio.
I'm not saying that we shall need petabyte storage any time in the near future but if you're going to estimate values, estimate them based on figures, not the quality "you're" happy with.]]>Mar 1st 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/some cameras like the RED ONE shoot 4k in raw that take up 400mb/s thats a second!!! and require raid like speeds just to work. and movies that are being ripped are now about 10gb/s each if you get the 1080p rips ( and those are down sampled because they want to save space ) ]]>Mar 1st 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/
I guess from our point of view we don't know what we don't know. I am guessing it will take many more decades of this development before we come to a point of not needing anymore. ]]>Mar 1st 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/01/self-assembling-nanoscale-discovery-could-catapult-data-storage/Mar 1st 2009 1:42PM