[diamondgeezer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2290707.stm

[Stryke 9]

Meh, I'll hold out 'till they come out with biosoft.

[Knight Templar]

wow  

*hops in delorrean and races to the future*

[Turnsky]

Hommna hommna hommna.......eep

[Mr. Vega]

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.....

[Kamikaze]

builtin gravity generators

hehe, this technology seems promising but unlikely while I'm still young and bliss

[CP5670]

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...

[Turnsky]

now imagine all this as a hard disk drive...

[Stunaep]

650 million megabytes. Thats like.... 650 giga... tera... eh... do we have enough numbers for something that big?

[Redfang]

Nice... but I'm not holding my breath.

[Cannikin]

Originally posted by Stunaep
650 million megabytes. Thats like.... 650 giga... tera... eh... do we have enough numbers for something that big?

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.

[an0n]

*thinks that micro-crystaline self-assembly data matrcies are more promising and advises everyone to invest in NanoMagnetics Ltd*

[vyper]

Cool , but this idea's been around for a while.

[Carl]

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.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stunaep
650 million megabytes. Thats like.... 650 giga... tera... eh... do we have enough numbers for something that big?

In other words, it's twice the size of the installation files for the next version of Windows.

[Stunaep]

yes, but that still leaves 345 terabytes to go.

[Martinus]

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*

[Fineus]

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!

[RandomTiger]

"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.

[Cannikin]

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.