Researchers Use Table Salt To Increase Hard Drive Density Six-Fold

Bertison said:

Did anyone read this part? -

<However, the number is a bit deceiving; while 3.3 terabit/sq. in. disks have been fabricated, the crew has “only” demonstrated data-storage capabilities in disks with 1.9 terabits/sq. in.>

What (exactly) will that mean?

it means that you have to take the article with a pinch of salt.

(like most modern 'journalism')

mickey megabyte said:

take the article with a pinch of salt

Not very likely. The key difference between HDs and SSDs isn't their storage capacity, but their transfer rate and most of all access time.

You could put a 100-exabyte drive into your machine and it would still boot as slowly (maybe not quite as slowly) as a 500GB one.

Hi all
We already have small 2TB drives -- 4TB shouldn't be too far away

You should look at pictures of old circa 1974 IBM mainframe 2314 Disc drives -- these were HUGE and only had I think it was around 29 MB (yes MB) capacity.

Moore's Law still has a LONG way to go yet before we run out of storage capacity.

Incidentally I never did see the point of CLOUD backup -- running APPLICATIONS however is a different issue.

For those interested here's a snippet from old IBM archives on the 2314. Note that for it's time it was a really brand new technology and some of the ideas such as incorporating independent disk controllers so I/O could take placer CONCURRENTLY with SYSTEM PROCESSING instead of having to wait for I/O to complete before continuing execution was the foundation for I/O handling in modern OS'es such as Windows and Linux.

IBM Archives: IBM 2314 direct access storage facility

cheers
jimbo

interesting, hope it gets big, i could be doing with some 12TB storage on my new rig im building, im using a 500GB SSD for system, and il tell you, its soooo expensive!

discript

Bring back the old 360K 5.5" Floppy I would say!!!

Yeah. 360K floppies for the OS and maybe two 1.44MB HD 3.5" floppies in RAID for storage. LOL!