Insanely Large 1,500,000 GB Hard drives

1.2 Petabytes of Storage

US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, hopes to achieve exactly that. He says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn utlimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage, to be exact.


To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera.

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frm http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7929

and wiv more info

 

ppl frm the space thread, nw this is a MONSTER

cost around $750 or £1300

hahaha knoc can ur current storage space beat jus 1 of these babies..... -lol

 

Oh my God, lol 1,500,000gb HD??? Unbelievable! -clapclap

And for $750-$1300, that's cheap. Nice find by the way, gonna have to get one of these, hehe.

 

holy crap, that is a cheap price for that amount of gb!

 

Yep, here's an idea of how cheap it actually is:

Price per GB = (HD price divided by GB's)

Maxtor 200GB Diamond Max 10 Rohs - SATA 8mb Buffer 7200 Rpm at $83.72
= $0.42 per GB

1,500,000GB HD at $750
= $0.0005 per GB
($0.00087 per GB if HD price is $1300)


Currently, the biggest drives have a capacity of 500GB, to advance to 1,500,000GB is just staggering. Should expect to see these drives in 4-5 years.

 

ah thats USD $750

and converts to GBP £1300

hehe cos i no sum ppl here are frm the uk like moi

but most ppl frm us

 

wow that's insane.........for $750, that's not too bad..... -clapclap

 

i would as well

hehe well £1300

 

hmmm...... decisions, decisions, decisions

i most probably go for the HD, mite b much cheaper frm wot u said in the other thread

plus will last me longer meanin i probably wont need n e more DVDs or extra HDs

 

OMG thats massive i didn't think they did 500GB yet lol.

 

they have done 500GB external HD

i think 1 make i remember is Oxygen or sumthing

 

Ah yeah, I misread the £1300 -oopsie, but you've miscalculated -noclue
$750 USD's converted to GBP would be £431
$750.00 USD = £430.958 GBP
1 USD = 0.574610 GBP
1 GBP = 1.74031 USD

£431 only, now that is a bargain

Damn, techonology is moving fast. Much credit to Michael Thomas who's made this possible. He's achieved 3000 times more capacity of the 500GB we have today.

1,500,000GB's, think you'll ever need more than that? Hehe

 

I've only found out recently myself
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=101942

 

Smaller and lighter would be nice. Imagine a 1,500,000GB iPod

Worst case would be if the drive failed, you'd lose an awful lot of stuff.

 

Lol I know that, but with that much space it can be pretty hard.