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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on October 01, 2002, 07:00:10 pm

Title: Got MB?
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 01, 2002, 07:00:10 pm: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2290707.stm

:eek2:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 01, 2002, 07:02:26 pm: Meh, I'll hold out 'till they come out with biosoft.:D
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 01, 2002, 07:05:06 pm: wow :eek2: :eek: :eek2:

*hops in delorrean and races to the future*
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Post by: Turnsky on October 01, 2002, 07:05:14 pm: Hommna hommna hommna.......eep :eek2: :shaking:
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Post by: Mr. Vega on October 01, 2002, 08:43:24 pm: Oh no! A breeze has blown on the CD! It's ruined! 6 million bucks down the drain!

Do you realize how insanely easy it would be to damage the CD in an uncontrolled evironment?

Edit-well actually, you could store the discs inside the computer.....
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Post by: Kamikaze on October 01, 2002, 08:50:15 pm: builtin gravity generators ;7

hehe, this technology seems promising but unlikely while I'm still young and bliss :p
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Post by: CP5670 on October 01, 2002, 09:34:26 pm: We will probably see this kind of thing coming out when we are all 70+ years old and are grumbling about the good old days when all we had was 650mb per CD... :D
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Post by: Turnsky on October 01, 2002, 09:46:03 pm: now imagine all this as a hard disk drive...
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Post by: Stunaep on October 02, 2002, 05:40:53 am: 650 million megabytes. Thats like.... 650 giga... tera... eh... do we have enough numbers for something that big? :eek2:
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Post by: Redfang on October 02, 2002, 07:26:58 am: Nice... but I'm not holding my breath. :D
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Post by: Cannikin on October 02, 2002, 09:01:13 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
650 million megabytes. Thats like.... 650 giga... tera... eh... do we have enough numbers for something that big? :eek2:

A million times a million? That's a TINY number! 650 million megs is only 650 trillion bytes (650,000,000,000,000) or 650 terabytes.
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Post by: an0n on October 02, 2002, 10:19:20 am: *thinks that micro-crystaline self-assembly data matrcies are more promising and advises everyone to invest in NanoMagnetics Ltd*
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Post by: vyper on October 02, 2002, 05:27:46 pm: Cool :), but this idea's been around for a while. :nervous:
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Post by: Carl on October 02, 2002, 05:54:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Cannikin
only 650 trillion bytes

...or about ten thousand times the size of my hard drive. "only" isn't quite the right word.
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 03, 2002, 05:37:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
650 million megabytes. Thats like.... 650 giga... tera... eh... do we have enough numbers for something that big? :eek2:

In other words, it's twice the size of the installation files for the next version of Windows.
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Post by: Stunaep on October 03, 2002, 08:43:41 am: yes, but that still leaves 345 terabytes to go.
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Post by: Martinus on October 03, 2002, 12:02:28 pm: Has anyone read up on Fluorescent multilayer disks (FMD's)?

100 gigs on a transparent disk the size of a CD with the possibility of expanding the capacity to 1 terrabyte (that's a lot of ones and zeros kids :wink: ).

Problem is that Constellation3D, the company behind this little technological terror has been somewhat quiet of late, I think it's something to do with waiting on patent verification but it looks very promising.

*waits*
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Post by: Fineus on October 03, 2002, 12:04:30 pm: So... how the hell do you fill one of these things? Hehe...

And more to the point, what's the seek time like on a full one of these disks? It's all good having a terrabyte of data but it's no good at all if it takes half a day to look through it all...imagine defragmenting!
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Post by: RandomTiger on October 03, 2002, 12:20:21 pm: "Imagine a CD with a storage capacity not of 650 MB but 650 million MB"

[homer simpson]Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggg![/homer simpson]

Dont worry, Microsoft will find a way to make an OS to use it all up.
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Post by: Cannikin on October 04, 2002, 02:27:12 am: Quote
Originally posted by Thunder

And more to the point, what's the seek time like on a full one of these disks? It's all good having a terrabyte of data but it's no good at all if it takes half a day to look through it all...imagine defragmenting!

That's what processers based on molecular transistors are for! If they ever manage to get them working they can be tens of thousands of times more powerful than CPU's today. ;7