Nanodots Used To Create 2.24 TB Storage Chip

[exfileme]

It's a new way to cram large capacities into nanometer spaces.

Nanodots Used To Create 2.24 TB Storage Chip : Read more

 

[mp562]

Sweet.

 

[jacobdrj]

So, is this storage Future Tech more like batteries (who always promise wonderful things in 2-5 years with almost no tangible consumer benefit), or is this more like CPU tech, where Moore's Law reigns?

 

[brendano257]

Incredible. I just hope it comes mainstream with decent pricing, and soon. I'm running out of places to put my movies 🙁

 

[Guest]

yea

 

[babybeluga]

I hate really, really smart people. They make me feel so dumb!

 

[gekko668]

that's nice but what's is the read/write speed? that's what i want to know.

 

[jerreece]

Okay, now this is the kind of news Tomshardware should be posting about.

A few years from now, this could become the replacement for SSDs. Imagine, 2.24TB in a thumb drive sized storage unit. Incredible. Absolutely incredible.

 

[zoemayne]

5 years isnt soon enough ssd's price will go down by then and they'll be already in mass use. hopefully this works out because many times we never hear about these "breakthroughs" after further research.

 

[PostmanPat]

Don't worry about it babybeluga... we really, really hate you too! 😉

 

[zoemayne]

So if you do the math a typical 2.5" drive can hold 8 of these chips so that 17.92TB. Depending on the thickness of the chip it can be layered 2 to 3 times providing capacities of 35.84TB and 53.76TB respectively. And for 3.5" drives the numbers more than double.

 

[Dekasav]

I wonder if it could have possible use as CPU cache....

 

[Bert R]

Did anybody else read the title as "Nanobots" by accident? Because I was excited for a second there. But, alas, tis not to be.

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]Dekasav[/nom]I wonder if it could have possible use as CPU cache....[/citation]
Depends. It sounds like this has less to do with silicon, and more to do with lasers. There are technologies that are similar for processors that would utilize laser pulses, and therefore, could have some kind of co-relevance with this technology, but assuming current CPU technology, I think this is a radically different way of accessing data, and may require something closer to an optical drive (DVD) than a CPU.

 

[bogcotton]

[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]So if you do the math a typical 2.5" drive can hold 8 of these chips so that 17.92TB. Depending on the thickness of the chip it can be layered 2 to 3 times providing capacities of 35.84TB and 53.76TB respectively. And for 3.5" drives the numbers more than double.[/citation]

No, because this doesn't include the technology needed to read and write onto the chip.

It's kind of like saying, I can cram the entire contents of an encyclopeia onto the surface of a grain of rice. But that doesn't mean you could cram 1000's of them into a 3.5 inch drive because you need a gigantic electron microscope to read the information.

 

[zoemayne]

that's nice but what's is the read/write speed? that's what i want to know.

Its unknown. It is not known whether it can be written to they have just managed to store 2TB on a chip.

 

[zoemayne]

No, because this doesn't include the technology needed to read and write onto the chip.

It's kind of like saying, I can cram the entire contents of an encyclopeia onto the surface of a grain of rice. But that doesn't mean you could cram 1000's of them into a 3.5 inch drive because you need a gigantic electron microscope to read the information.

good point but im sure i was not the only one thinking about how many square inches a 2.5" drive can take.

 

[Shadow703793]

W00t! Bring on the mass storage SSDs!

 

[Marco925]

How much does this cost?

 

[babybeluga]

[citation][nom]postmanpat[/nom]Don't worry about it babybeluga... we really, really hate you too![/citation]

I can't even read ='(

 

[drwho1]

I hope that this technology does get somewhere, and at earth prices.
It's funny when they said "this can be done "cost-effectively" but then
when it gets to the consumer the price is multiply by 1000+'s.

Also like many comments speculate, I too would like to know if multiple
of this chips could be used on a single unit and at earth prices.

 

[t-vizz the 2nd]

why not just use multiple units, like RAID.

 

[androticus]

hahaha -- if i had a dollar for every science project that was going to become a stupendous new tech product "within 5 years" i would be a zillionaire 😉

 

[gpace]

So, what's the read write speed? How long does it last? What's the power draw?

Still, I can't wait to see this in action once it is actually ready for the mass market.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Don't eat these.. you will fall asleep and some old man might rape you.