IBM 'one atom, one bit' storage breakthrough If you've been hankering for a multi-terabyte USB thumb drive, you may be in luck: IBM scientists have developed a technique that could — eventually — help increase data-storage densities by orders of magnitude. The breakthrough, announced Friday, allows researchers to measure how long a bit of information can be retained in …
Mind you, it's very impressive, just like those lads from Manchester who can build orbital spacecraft in their garden shed. This must be the equivalent of them being hired by TopGear to attempt to send a Reliant Robin to orbit. Just as likely in real life, but a good jape all the same.
So 20 BluRay films or thereabouts on a thumb drive for the future then, could be used by Apple as backup storage in case of a cloud fail. Can't wait.
"So 20 BluRay films or thereabouts on a thumb drive for the future then, could be used by Apple as backup storage in case of a cloud fail." ... Neal 5 Posted Saturday 25th September 2010 00:43 GMT
Clouds don't fail, Neal 5, their controller's sell out to lesser competition and sub optimum primal opposition for Loadsamoney and ITs Firewall of Street Credit with Flash QE Cash.
And paradoxically, it is also how they are retained and maintained to perform excellently, and to orders. ......... :-) which is a sort of Virtual Detainment for One's Pleasure too.
They are doing a lot of pretty forward thinking research. This sort of research does not come cheap.
Even if you don't like IBM (for a myriad of reasons) IMHO you should at least tip your hat at them for their work in areas like this. The payback times for this sort of stuff could be decades but it needs to be done by someone.
Although I'm against Software Patents in general I don't begrudge them getting Patents for this sort of work. They are spening lots of Dollars so it is only fair for them to possibly get some ROI in due course.
This sort of stuff is not the sort of research that a geek could do in their Mom's basement is it?
Anyway, they get a Thumbs up from me here. (And for resisting SCO's attempt at a RICO scam)
...on file would enable the reconstruction of accidentally executed people.
Or maybe batch replicate 25,000 grunts and 3,000 missle experts, etc...
I read once that the Dole was created because the street urchins being drafted were too scrawney to fight.
Sadly, it seems, men can't seem to get too drunk to fight.
Now I don't know how large the national DNA database is, but the amount of data held for any on profile is relatively small. All that is held is a limited number of markers - maybe just a few dozen per person. This means, in principle that you could put the raw DNA profile data from the approximately 3.1m people on the UK NDNAD onto a single 50GB Blu-Ray disk, although I've no doubt by the time that they've puffed this out with all the other overheads and information that is an operation system, it's much bigger than that.
Of course if what you mean is a full genome sequence for every individual, then that's a very different matter. With about 19,000 genes in the human genome, then any database size is going to be perhaps three orders of magnitude larger than one of mere DNA profiles.
HP will be selling their nanotech memrister memory in 2013. Hynix is the fab. This IBM press release is just that - a press release - it is decades away from being practical. The HP memory can be layered and will scale to a terabyte per layer. There is no reason why there couldn't be 1,000 layers per chip. This equates to about a PETA byte per cubic cm!!! Google memrister and watch the youtube videos. Yes I have an HP bias - I retired from there.
Oh my! Excite an atom, and it will, in-turn, excite you. Qantum states, elevated electrons, and bears. There are bears, right? Whatever.. nature continues to astound, confront, and stifle our little games. This one sounds a bit too solar-flare-senstitive to be usable. The problem with atomic, and lower, happenings is that they are fleeting, as best as can be measured (we get all ga-ga when we can measure just how fleeting). It may make for fun RAM-type giggles, but likely not peristent storage. For that, we'll be stuck up at the molecular level for the time being. Just my opine...
I picked an icon, but then I observed it, and it was a dead cat. Bruuuaahhh!
Think of the the heat a thousand layers of memrister cells can generate. Probably can incinerate the entire computer together with its metal casing. No doubt, 3D chips are the future of the chip industry, not only for the memory industry. Heat is the main reason why we still do not see many 3D chips in the market right now.
One bit per particle. It's a great idea.
Because nothing could *possibly* happen that might corrupt the *only* copy of a bit ..... could it?
Mine's the one with a copy of "Quantum Mechanics for Dummies" in the pocket. It's not the one you're used to seeing me wearing, though --that one's in the wash.
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