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232543 2004-04-27 10:59:00 Yes they really do exist... read about it here (neasia.nikkeibp.com).

Cheers,

Lo. 		Lohsing (219)
232544 2004-04-27 11:10:00 Blu-ray is the stepping stone STS. ( 27GB )

This kind of tech -in rumours I've read is already mill-spec- and also holographic disks are aparently able to hold "in theory" up to four terabyte or 4TB.

So hitting 300GB is hitting way under the belt STS :D

What is it? 1024GB = 1TB? *shrugs* :)

Then from memory there's things like pico bytes and exabytes.... lol

:) 		zminos (5010)
232545 2004-04-28 04:57:00 pica = 10^-12 so that would be a crashed disk of any size. The quantity of tears is proportional to (formatted size/1 picabyte) so a terabyte disk (10^12) or exabyte (10^18) disk crash would cause much wailing, especially because the probability of existence of a fully accessible backup is inversely proportional to the size and value of the information.

There is a newish standard which, if adopted, will get rid of the arguments about the size of disks. There's a NIST page about it.

one GB (gigabyte) is exactly 10^9 and is equal to 1000 MB (megabytes of 10^6 bytes).
one GiB (gibibyte) is exactly 2^30 and is equal to 1024 MiB (mibibytes of 2^20 bytes).

... etc, for the full range of "engineering" scales. It might be a while before we see exibyte (2^60) disks.

Of course people would much rather argue than adopt a sensible standard. :D (As someone said: "Most people would sooner die than think. Many have".) 		Graham L (2)
232546 2004-04-28 06:48:00 Holographic sound interesting.

I personally don't think hard drives will make it in the long run. Hard drives and optical drivesare always too slow and are always the system bottleneck.

I'd much rather see some new non-volitile memory storage type devices come out and become mainstream. You can get them at the moment but they are very expensive. Having them would effectively eliminate the hard drive bottleneck in the system, and programs would load instantly etc. 		PoWa (203)
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