1.5 Pecabyte Hard drive

jks · Post by **jks** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:34 pm

Collosal storage corp. is researching and developing a 1.5 pecabyte hard drive (yes pecabytes, thats 1,500 terabytes or 1,500,000 gigabytes) they expect to be able to produce it in 5 years. The secret is using quantum computing to alter the state of an atom's electrons, thus giving you more than 2 possibilities for states of the electrons, we wont be stuck in binary computing anymore. Link here:

http://colossalstorage.net/home_spintronics.htm

~Discuss.

Grave · Post by **Grave** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:44 pm

man thats big did they even make a terrabyte harddrive yet

jks · Post by **jks** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:47 pm

Toshiba is making one right now. Release is for the end of the year I think.

Grave · Post by **Grave** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:49 pm

makes my 60gb harddrive feel even smaller lol
funny thing is when they first came out with gigabyte harddrives they said u wouldnt be able to fill it

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:51 am

now imagine how many programs that could hold...

Ok, Steam, and all of its apps is 5,550MB....

to GB is 5.4541015625... multiply that by 1,500,000...

=

8181152.34375.....

So that means that could hold roughly 8181152 different copies of Steam and its Applications...

(HL2, CSS,HL1,DODS,HL2DM,GM9)

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:57 am

*imagines all the crap you could cram onto that*

*evil grin*

M9 HE-DP Grenade · Post by **M9 HE-DP Grenade** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:29 am

Technically,the yottabyte is the biggest. i think it goes like this:

Bit: 1
Nybblet (i think that's 5 bits)
Byte:8 bits
Kilobyte:1000 bytes
Megabyte:1000 kilobytes
Gigabyte:1000 megabytes
Terabyte:1000 Gigabytes
Petabyte: 1000 Terabytes
Exabyte: 1000 Petabytes
Zettabyte:1000 Exabytes
Yottabyte:1000 Zettabytes

you could probably download the internet if you had a 500 Yottabyte HD

but then you'd need quad super processors with giant bus speeds and be able to process at least 6 Zettahertz each. now how would u keep that processing system cool?

if you left it on pluto i think it would still overheat lol. very interesting topic

a_marine · Post by **a_marine** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:22 pm

The internet only goes up to around 100 terrabytes. Still a pecabyte o_O IF it ever comes out then you'll have to be one rich bitch to buy it.

M9 HE-DP Grenade · Post by **M9 HE-DP Grenade** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:35 pm

you'll see,after a few years that will be old and small. just like that 15mb HD got old really fast

jks · Post by **jks** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:04 pm

a_marine wrote:The internet only goes up to around 100 terrabytes. Still a pecabyte o_O IF it ever comes out then you'll have to be one rich **** to buy it.

Starting price will be $750.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:45 pm

Cuda wrote:now imagine how many programs that could hold...

Ok, Steam, and all of its apps is 5,550MB....

to GB is 5.4541015625... multiply that by 1,500,000...

= 8181152.34375.....

So that means that could hold roughly 8181152 different copies of Steam and its Applications...

(HL2, CSS,HL1,DODS,HL2DM,GM9)

WTF?Maybe you should go learn Math again.You have to divide.If I'm wrong I'm sry.I roughly looked over it.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:01 pm

I dont see where. I wouldnt be able to give you he math for the conversion for the Meg-Gig, cuz I used a converter, and multiply.

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:00 pm

I read about a server company that sells Petabyte arrays for ~$5 million. They're available now, but of course they're actually 2048 500GB drives in a massive array.