Nanodots Used To Create 2.24 TB Storage Chip

[mlopinto2k1]

17,921 billion - You mean, 17 quadrillion?

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]jerreece[/nom]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.[/citation]Imagine a 20TB SSD in stripe array with 4 5TB chips.

 

[ViPr]

why is it that basically every single tech news story goes essentially like this: "amazing technology that will improve lives immensely will be commercially available after you are dead"

 

[koga73]

wow, cheap to manufacture + 2TB for end user = HUGE PROFITS! itll probably take a few years to come down to an affordable price. Amazing tho!

 

[getritch]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]17,921 billion - You mean, 17 quadrillion?[/citation]

You mean 17.921 trillion?

 

[spks19]

Snore. Wake me when I can walk up to a machine and say, "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot," and it materialized out of thin air. Then I will be impressed.

 

[shin0bi272]

yet another cool tech idea that will never see the production phase. Either this professor will patent the idea or unc will own it which ever and they will try to sell it for 20 billion dollars and it will never get bought and we will be paying 200 bucks for 128gb SSD's in the 5 years that this is supposed to come out.


it also sounds more like a cd technology than a replacement for SSDs anyway. still a 2tb cd would be worth it IMHO... could back up all my mp3's on 1 disc then.

 

[thomaseron]

48 core cpu with integrated graphics, parallell programming, massive storage as in this article, face- and speach-recognition, botnets spreading across the globe... Anyone wanna connect the dots? sounds great to be alive in the next 2-5 years, doesn't it? 😛

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]jacobdrj[/nom]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?[/citation]
I'm hoping.
I always hate seeing a claim of a technology that will change the way everything is done, and being completely forgotten in only a week to never resurface.

 

[Guest]

wow... and i thought defraging now is a

 

[ben850]

[citation][nom]getritch[/nom]You mean 17.921 trillion?[/citation]

safe to say it's over 9,000

 

[ceteras]

When OLED technology was first announced, they said it will be dirt-cheap to produce.
Now, OLED screens are nowhere near "cheap" to buy.
So yeah, even if the folks in the University say "the chips can be manufactured `cost-effectively.` ", this thing will cost an arm and a leg.

 

[schmich]

[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]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.[/citation]
SSD's price will go down but so will normal HDD and their capacity 😱

 

[micky_lund]

awesome...no need for me to get an SSD, just go straight to this

 

[goodsyntax]

Whether the I/O speed is fast or not, this technology is a WIN!

If the I/O is slow, this could replace tape or other mediums for data backups (or in my case, massive storage for my movie library).

If the I/O is acceptable, this could replace SSDs.

I am curious about the MTBF, power draw and other specs though. If power consumption is too high, they may bundle this with the personal nuclear reactor (http://earth2tech.com/2008/08/01/hyperions-nuclear-in-a-box-ready-by-2013/)

Nanodots FTW!

 

[Guest]

Jagdish (Jay) Narayan is a professor at North Carolina State University (NC State) not the University of North Carlolina (UNC)

 

[2zao]

i just want space to be more affordable than it is right now... with improved access speeds...

"cost effective" doesnt say anything in respect to the pricing we will pay... nor am i excited because they cant give read/write speeds yet...

yes small form factor with large amounts of space is nice for portability... but what i said above would be something we could all jump for

 

[jestern]

I'm with shin0bi272.

Anyone who's read technews has seen this time and time again. Someone spouts some fantastic breakthrough promising new technologies which never emerge.

Wake me when its developed, reviewed and commented on by numerous reputable tech magazines and coming to market by at least three 1st-tier hardware developers. 😛

 

[geforcepat09]

[citation][nom]Bert R[/nom]Did anybody else read the title as "Nanobots" by accident? Because I was excited for a second there. But, alas, tis not to be.[/citation]
Oh thanks for the heads up cause all day i was thinking nanobots too!lol

 

[jacobdrj]

Snore. Wake me when I can walk up to a machine and say, "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot," and it materialized out of thin air. Then I will be impressed.

Isolinear chips... it is a start...


On a side note, since these are quantum based, isn't there a potential data integrity problem stemming from Heisenberg principles?

 

[JohnnyLucky]

it might be years away and it might never make it to market but it does sound interesting.

 

[Hiniberus]

Christ I could backup all my desktop and laptop crap onto one thing and still have space to do more. Mechanical HDD's are good for me and SSD's are far far too high in price for my liking so I think I'd have to get a regular HDD. Haven't changed m'current ones for a few years now :/ (Like 5 years or something like that)

 

[doorspawn]

We're fast approaching the point where cosmic rays and other similar things can cause data loss.

This device will need high levels of mirroring or significant portions of memory dedicated to error correction data if it wants to avoid this data loss. Far more so than modern ECC memory.

For many application, 1 erroneous bit per year can be one too many.

I really hope that in the future, just like now, we don't need to expect the odd erroneous bit, ever.