The owner of Colossal Storage, Michael Thomas, says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn ultimately 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
1.2 Petabyte is a hell lot of space there!
For hotse of you who don't know:
1.2Petabyte = 1 228.8Terabyte = 1 258 291.2Gigabyte
The 1.2Petabyte Hard Disk is expected to be finished around 2010-2011 and would cost approximately $750USD for 1.
Source from Here Wow I diidnt even know there was such thing as a Petabyte I wouldn't buy it though.
wow... just wow.. I cant think of any good reason to get one unless, its for more than one person. and if someone is able to fill that with only personal stuff, then thats just nuts. A lot of top quality video or something of the sort maybe. but wow.
in that day, you can fit everything in it, the whole Internet....(maybe)
and I will lauagh at myself stilling optimizing my PHP script to get out 200KB of comments i need one.... keep maxin out my 200 gb at least once a week so have to back up stuff onto dvd's etc!
I would need one too, I'm just too lazy to delete rubbish off my hard disk.
I love keeping them, LOL! gr8...
will think about buying it..!!!
PEACE OUT
how would you ever fill that up? You would have to be like a game, music, and video freak. Or maybe when blu-ray video comes out it might be easier to fill.
Wow. 520 of those COULD hold the whole internet! As of 2002, the internet was 532,897 TB according to here, but I'm not sure of their credibility.
Well, that's cool. I wonder what I would do with all of that space... I wouldn't say that 200 gbs is all you need. look way back when when the bios issue first started. they thought that 500mbs is all ppl will ever need and they will never get hard drives that big so they put a 500 mbs reading limit.
What happend 1.2gbs came out etc..
Now a days with windows vista expected to take 1gb of the hard drive and games like grand theft auto san andreas taking a MIN. of 5Gbs of the hard driver 1.2 pertrildfnaiownagfn-bytes will be good.
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| Wow. 520 of those COULD hold the whole internet! As of 2002, the internet was 532,897 TB according to here, but I'm not sure of their credibility. |
It said 1200 tbs that means only one of these could hold the internet. I would think the internet is bigger then this thought. Petabyte 
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I would need one too, I'm just too lazy to delete rubbish off my hard disk.
I love keeping them, LOL! :lol: |
Same problem over here...
But ontopic, I guess I would buy a cheap Western Digital hard disk,
as the prices of the other hard disks should collapse.awsome i like the sund of that much space!
1.2 PB? Wow, thats what I want. Maybe, I can't wait until 2011. Now I know what I have to do for the next year's, thinking about things I would but on this harddisk. OMFGWTF!!!!
thats amazing, i thought that we were maybe just on the verge of the couple of TB HDDs but i guess i was wrong. Thats absolutely stunning! A 1.2 PETABYTE HDD is something that is out of startrek practically. You will NEVER run out of space with that much on the disk!! Ill admit that 750USD is a little steep for a HDD, but considering that a 200GB drive right now costs nearly 100-150USD, its a really really good price/byte ratio!
The biggest media collection I've seen has been around like 5 TB but they are getting bigger. I would definitely buy 1 PB when it comes out. It's also so damn small. 1 PB usb stick lol can't wait for that.
That's like hell of a space...
I mean... what exactly do you need so much for.. unless you r a hosting company 
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That's like hell of a space...
I mean... what exactly do you need so much for.. unless you r a hosting company !!!
Well... we'll see when it comes to the market.. |
Well, you couldn't be too sure about that.
20 years ago, or maybe more, 1GB was like, OMG! That's like impossible to use it all up. Right now, 1GB is not even enough for a game | seanooi wrote: |
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That's so much space... I think I will be lost in so much data... But in 2012. operating systems and programs will be use more space than today.
about 1990.
average hard disk 40MB - MS DOS + Windows 3.11 10MB
about 1995.
average hdd 1GB - Windows 95 - about 300MB
about 2003.
average hdd 20 GB Windows XP about 1GB
nice 1.2 PB unless its some sort of super fast hd time will become an issue to fill it. current hds store data @ +/- 40-45MB/s
(1.2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024) / 45
= 28633115 seconds to fill it
= 477218 minutes
= 7953 hours
= 331 days
thats about 1 year to fill it 
if you don't give it a break
I hope they create something like internal-raid to boost the speed | seanooi wrote: |
The owner of Colossal Storage, Michael Thomas, says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn ultimately 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
1.2 Petabyte is a hell lot of space there!
For hotse of you who don't know:
1.2Petabyte = 1 228.8Terabyte = 1 258 291.2Gigabyte
The 1.2Petabyte Hard Disk is expected to be finished around 2010-2011 and would cost approximately $750USD for 1.
Source from Here |
Of course owning one would be real cool, but one has to have the right accessories for searching and finding anything you want. It just aint gonna be easy with a million gb.
Even a good search program must be extremely fast to search the whole drive atleast a 500000 times faster .
Without such facilities the drive would jus be another garbage dump
Where the hell can one get such a fast pc for home use
Borrow one from IBM 
well to day only use Disk 40 GB for ciber...
one peta.??? ummmm
what cpu -.... nedd....?? to day AMD 64.. Support.?? o intel 3.6 ..???
an interesting point made by a friend of mine was that, as of right now, both linux and Windows Vista only support drives of 130GB each....(he might be wrong but i remember that there was a limit to exactly how much space one drive could have recognized by the OS)...given this delema unless there is a major change in the future of operating systems, not to meantion write speeds of physical disk drives, there will be some serious issues with having one singular drive with that much space on it.
its not the question of the size limit of the OS, i think the question is, will the motherboard manucaturers support it.
Assuming that the OSes would add support for a HDD of that size, but if the motherboard manufacturers will not add support for the HDD, it will still not be of much use
Don't waste your time with this. It's total vaporware.
another thing is what about transfer speed.....they had to have come up with a faster way of reading the disk if you have that much data on there....(i think this may have already been brought up sorry if it has)
One disk of that size?
What if you fill it, and it crashed? That would suck a lot... I have little under 1Tb and that's more than I really need...
Oh and what's thjis about Windows Vista not supporting more than 130Gig when XP supports more? I have 3 x 250gig drives running. Surely Vista, being a later version, would handle that just fine.
Only problem is I can't use the entire drive, a few gigs fall off.. 
i am sure i will get it full
hell what do you want with 1.2 petabyte.. ?? hea... what ??
can i have one too ?
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That's like hell of a space...
I mean... what exactly do you need so much for.. unless you r a hosting company !!!
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There are many reasons for this much space.
Like you said hosting.
If you are working for a movie company and with HD-TV and the next generation of a 4hr movie is 30gbs of space required. just haveing to do 4 movies will take 120gbs of space that will fill up fast.
If your a gamer and now with the higher polygons per second a model will require more space. Even with playstation 3 using blue-ray just so it can hold all the next gen info to be put on the disk. Like a siad before a game like grand theft auto san andreas requires a min of 5gbs if you made san andreas with high quality models and more cars and weapons I could see it easily taking 8-10gbs.
Same as above for a game programmer.
If your someone with a moded xbox or playstation 2 who like to save your game to the hard drive so that you don't have to have a bunch of cd's this will be great for the xbox or playstation 2.Well... I know I am going to buy one when they come out. I don't even care about the price, it is sooo worth it for the type of things I do.
I need the space for my desktop and my server. I run a php board, website, 4 game servers, 2 ragnarok clients, and a ton of file hosting. That would most certainly solve all space issues.
And for desktop I would have plenty of space for my 3d animation. I do alot of that. So i could use that space.
just......wow.....
That does deserve a wow overall.
But let's consider other factors. Will that beast of a storage really be stable? Speed? Read/Write performance?
By 2010, we don't know what new types of motherboards or hardware there will be. Maybe by then the USB drives will become more competitive. Personally I think this product is cool, it can store everything. But if you have all those files, it would take a hell of a time for the system to boot up, for the drive to do de-frags, clean ups, virus scans, etc. Not really time saving.
I have to say Plug and Play hardware > All. This just doesn't sound practical enough.
If hard drives keep growing at this rate, Microsoft will need to work fast to come up with a new file system. The current maximum size for NTFS drives is only 6 TB, so you'd need 200 partitions to even make that useable.
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Does that mean that it is like trans flash....no moving parts, or is it still a moving drive?this won't be the next storage technology.. the next storage technology will be a 1 terabyte RAM hard disk.. the difference of this RAM is tht the memory does not disappear when the computer is shut down.. it's kinda like a 'permanent' RAM which can be rewritten again n again.. the obvious benefit is it will be faster, much much faster than hard drives using the magnetic technology..
Well, if they ever got this type of storage out trust me it would get used.
I remember having a 40Mb hard and thinking that I would never use it all. Now I have 1.3 TBs and I'm using most of it, MP3, Movies, TV Shows, and Games the space goes fast.
I was wondering when this would come out. I didn't think it would be out for quite a few more years. When will the exabyte come out? I love high storage items. I would get definitely get one.
Well this is cool, but think about it, if that hard drive dies, then everything, all the internet, videos, music, memories, are lost. The larger the hard drive, the more encouragement it would give you to store more. And if the military uses that, then the enemy only has to shoot one bullet through the hard drive and the data is lost, or only one hard drive to steal and the entire US is in jepordy. I think it's a great idea but for some things, not so much.
I can't even get my Hard Drive of 320GB full I would never buy one, and here's why.
When you have a single drive for any application, you need at least three drives that are the same size for backups - meaning you have one active, one on an hourly or daily backup, one on a weekly backup, and one on a monthly backup. Meaning you need at least four drives... it's also a bad idea to have your backup drives be the same brand, model, and lot of the original (the chance that they will all fail around the same time is huge).
RAID arrays are widely used for a reason - it's better and more recoverable than a single huge drive. Just my two cents.
Sounds like overkill to me. I think 3 total copies is fine, and some things like movies, music, TV Shows, and so on you can always just re-download for the most part. Like I have most of my games though Steam which allows me to download them at anytime to play them.
Until that company goes out of business or changes their business model, sure.
I wasn't talking about things that you can replace, I'm talking about things that you can't just re-download (music from iTunes, personal pictures or documents, etc.).
If you think I'm paranoid, you're right, but that's part of being in IT. Never trust the machines completely Well I agree, but with a normal system today, like mine for example. I have about 20-30Gb of personal files and such. Which is very easily backed up, to external NAS, some times media i.e. DVDs, and finally to the internet i.e. photobucket.com. So I really only need 2 Drives, and a good internet connection. I also on certain things, i.e. family photos, copy the files to other computers as part of backing them.
And your right backing up is very important.
I am from an old-school of thought where one does not ever trust third-parties to maintain backups unless they are backup companies... and even then...
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| Well this is cool, but think about it, if that hard drive dies, then everything, all the internet, videos, music, memories, are lost. The larger the hard drive, the more encouragement it would give you to store more. And if the military uses that, then the enemy only has to shoot one bullet through the hard drive and the data is lost, or only one hard drive to steal and the entire US is in jepordy. I think it's a great idea but for some things, not so much. |
Firstly, that's what backups are for
Secondly why does an old post need to be reincarnated? There really should be a cut off on some of these threads, of at least a year. At least whoever brought it back search instead of just re-posting.
I will want 2 these to my pc
This is the perfect answer for my topic: "when enough is enough?"
I really am curious after few years when somebody will say: how much? One petabyte? Too small for my needs. Damn, That's a lot of songs, videos, programs ha. It's amazing, I would love to have this, and it's not too expensive, especially compared to the hdd now. This would revolutionize home computers . Next I wanna see like a super CPU xD You can save the enitre Wikipedia website on about 4gigabytes. I wonder what would be comparable for the Petabyte? Saving every video on YouTube?
I could fill that easily. Just get me the drive and an OC-3 line >: D
If you intent to use 1.2 Petabytes of storage space, what will be your backup device?
I guess it will be good only as a backup device or on a Storage Area Network (SAN),
or used in a RAID 5 or RAID 10 storage pool (never need to have a backup off-site).
Backup is always my main concern - backup space and backup time.
Hope I shed some concerns for using more and more HDD space.
With regards.
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| wow... just wow.. I cant think of any good reason to get one unless, its for more than one person. and if someone is able to fill that with only personal stuff, then thats just nuts. A lot of top quality video or something of the sort maybe. but wow. |
Well m8,
No one will ever make a hard drive that will have too much storage space
Think of the times that 1or 2 GB HDDs ; 40GB HDDs first came, then 120GBs, 500GB 
We all thought that is too much of storage :p
But the film industry keep inovating more and more high deff stuff
Think of a a Few BlueRay films on your HDD. Whola... HWere isthat 500GB empty space went...
Likewise,,, When the storage space increases, we tend to keep more and more unnecesary stuff filled in our HDDs.
A Good example is I was keeping fine with my 40GB HDD and Bought a lap with 320GB hard. Today I feel its not enough at all
Its like the race between Bullet and the bullet proof jacket :pYap, I fully agreed with Rajiev, that we have a problem ourselves - we keep generating lots of demand for storage.
Will this trend tapped off? I guess when we get old, we will, but not when you are young and exploring and full of time and energy.
So my view is your storage space needs apts with your age.
Someone may take this up for a PHD research topic - just joking.
With regards.
Thanks shenyl
Ya, Once we grow old, the things we must store will increase with time ( like our memories )
And If we could store all that tits and bits, we wont feel bored in our late days when no one is there to talk to...
we can watch all those things we stored
And Once Aurther C. Cleark said in one of his Science fixtions that We will be able to store everything that defines a human in a Peta byte memory chip (all the DNA data, Memories, thoughts ...)
So with this new technology....
Will we be able to live forever inside a Computer when our organic bodies dies ??? 
Untill (of course) that machine crashes :p Oh, I just check my Software Download folders - and it is filled with 30 sub categories, and each sub-category with loads of software - and each software with several versions.
Then I realised that more than half of that storage are OUTDATED software - replaced by latest downloads.
Yap, we will need huge bandwidth to download and even bigger processing power to clear out the outdated downloaded stuff.
I guess I need to go out now to google for a software that can help me zap out those outdated stuff, before I am forced to buy the 1.2 Petabyte HDD.
Serious and yet joking.
With regards.
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Oh, I just check my Software Download folders - and it is filled with 30 sub categories, and each sub-category with loads of software - and each software with several versions.
Then I realised that more than half of that storage are OUTDATED software - replaced by latest downloads.
Yap, we will need huge bandwidth to download and even bigger processing power to clear out the outdated downloaded stuff.
I guess I need to go out now to google for a software that can help me zap out those outdated stuff, before I am forced to buy the 1.2 Petabyte HDD.
Serious and yet joking.
With regards. |
Lol, You mean You are Using Pirated Sotware
I thought you cant talk of such things here
anyways, I dont Keep small softwares in my HDD as long as MY RS acount is live No one said anything... but HOLY SH1T! Imagen how much porn in high def photos...... videos.... damn...
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| No one said anything... but HOLY SH1T! Imagen how much porn in high def photos...... videos.... damn... |
ROFL
Ya ya :p
HD, Deffinitly yay.
I bet Rapidshare would deffinitly need to upgrade it's download quoata :pr u kidding me? that much of space? u could download all the pirated copies and store it and then share it... hehe
i wonder what he does with it though? how much did he pay for it?
using it for what purpose...? i dont know if anyone could complete using it in his lifetime
Won't this slow down your computer? lol
my question would be reliability and speed. One disk like that could possibly last me 25 years of computer upgrades, just swapping it out as my HD with each new system and keeping all my files. w00t!
as for filling it completely.. It will be possible in the future. no morea little more than 10 years ago 500MegaBytes was said to be more than you would ever need in your lifetime. Now look, I have a 750gb internal that's 3 quarters full, and an external 250Gb that IS full. 10 years ago they never thought they would see the day. 10 years ago i could have easily filled one gigabyte. today i can easily fill one terabyte. 10 years in the future I'll be ready to stock pile a petabyte. 20 years from now, an exabyte. Holy cow!!
The space WILL be used too. just look, a dvd video takes up on average 5Gigs of space on a dvd. a BluRay with better quality takes 50Gigs. 5 years from now TV's will have higher resolutions, bigger sizes and 500%+ better qualities. USA should take step one and convert every form of data connection to Fiber Optic. Light has been the least corrupt and fastest way to transfer data for several years. if everything were to go Fiber Optic and be as universal as USB, just imagine how much time we would save on producing a further advanced future The comments on that page make it seem this guy is largely non-credible, and out for attention with unlikely claims.
When was the last time technology jumped 4+ orders of magnitude at once?
| the zephyrus wrote: |
The comments on that page make it seem this guy is largely non-credible, and out for attention with unlikely claims.
When was the last time technology jumped 4+ orders of magnitude at once? |
good point.........1.2 PB, this is a lot of storage space.
Dude, I need one NOW! For everyone wondering how in the world you would EVER fill one up, I have
two words for you. HD Video. Us video editors have been looking for something like this for a long
time. Right now I have 5 extra drives so that I can keep my business running, and it seems like they
are ALWAYS full of video, which makes it hard to take on any new projects.....and I am a small
one person video production company in a small town that has no road access!!!! So having a
huge harddrive would be awesome. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
wow, thats an incredibly huge leap from what is available to the public. That's very cool, and I was thinking about getting one Terabyte to increase my storage.
Sounds great, but is it fast?
However, I can't imagine a system with a system disk, SSD, SLC, just enough capacity for OS and programs, and this one for the rest.. well.. that's good
750$ seem a lot, but it's actually (very, very) worth it, when you see 256G SSD drives for nearly 1000$
Like some others already posted, that will probably be very useful for hosting.
Let's wait and enjoy, then! So much code. So little time.
wow so much storage i dun think i will ever use so much but $750 is really good value
thats a lot of space lol I say the first one to fil that drive up , Rules the World lol I still havent even filled a terrabybyte, lol I would also hate to think what amounts of data you would loose if it were to crash....Now I am thinking about how I would partition it 1.2 petabytes.....that's about 16% of what google processes every year =D
