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.
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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.
