News New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter

[Admin]

New form of crystal storage stores bits as missing atoms, achieving what may be the highest possible storage density of "terabytes per millimeter".

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[Zforgetaboutit]

Title should be

"New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per cubic millimeter."

 

[A Stoner]

Limit...

'In 1 cubic mm of diamond, there are approximately 1.74 x 10^22 carbon atoms. '

17,400,000,000,000,000,000,000

17,400 billion billion
17,400 million trillion

There is quite the opportunity if each bit is stored in each individual atom.

 

[Zforgetaboutit]

According to the article, ideally, it's 1-bit per defect, so I think if each of "your counted atoms" had a defect, there wouldn't be any 3-D diamond crystalline structure in the first place.

Could 100% of all the structurally defective atoms remain associated with other carbon atoms to form some kind of lattice? Maybe, but it wouldn't be diamond.

 

[gg83]

I read something about crystal storage as a medium over 20 years ago. It was 2000, I was in Cisco certification class and we were talking about it. I hope this is viable.

 

[dmitche31958]

Finally, I have enough storage for my video collection as well as my future AI collections. Well, maybe not all of the AI garbage. LOL

 

[why_wolf]

I read something about crystal storage as a medium over 20 years ago. It was 2000, I was in Cisco certification class and we were talking about it. I hope this is viable.

Yeah they've been interested in crystal storage for decades. Partially because of Sci-Fi (so many shows use crystals) but also because crystals are very stable over the super long term.

Far as I'm aware the giant limitation this whole time has been how incredibly slow the various methods have been to write and read data to a crystal. Fine for a laboratory experiment, unacceptable for real world use.

 

[Blastomonas]

Another fancy storage medium. I bet that we are still using HDD and SSD in 20 years time .

Still waiting on my glass and DNA storage systems..

 

[TheOtherOne]

Another fancy storage medium. I bet that we are still using HDD and SSD in 20 years time .

Still waiting on my glass and DNA storage systems..

Just like we STILL use Lithium batteries, or Petrol / Diesel for vehicles, or light bulbs with very short life span..

It's all about consumerism and making money rather than advancing humanity to farthest possible way.

 

[usertests]

Just like we STILL use Lithium batteries, or Petrol / Diesel for vehicles, or light bulbs with very short life span..

It's all about consumerism and making money rather than advancing humanity to farthest possible way.

There are datacenters that will get what they want if it's viable. Worldwide demand for video storage is continuing to grow fast, and some fields like astronomy could use any amount of yottabytes they are given. But these glass/crystal technologies not only look slow to write to, but are probably write-once-read-many which will limit the applications. DNA storage could be even worse.

 

[Geef]

We 'all know' these are worthless...
They aren't even made in the 1:4:9 dimensional ratio...

 

[sjkpublic]

Zardoz. Now is this rewritable storage? And do they have a guess at what speed data transfer takes place?

 

[BloodBaz]

Title should be

"New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per cubic millimeter."

I was going to say the same! "Terabytes of bits" is as nonsensical as "kilometers of meters"!