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IBM Research Puts 1 Bit of Data on Only 12 Atoms; 1TB Mobile Storage in a Few Years
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metalspring
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idk, it might still be 1024 GB, but only 1000 remains after formatting? however if it really is only 1000 gb, then yeah, that extra 24 gb would be nice since formatting makes you lose some space anyway
Interesting video and concept but they fail to mention any ideas on how to scale back the need for a scanning electron microscope to read/write the data. :blink: That's going to make for a slightly unwieldy phone. 
Sure, your exabyte of data fits on a postage stamp but the read/write mechanism is the size of a large German Shepherd...
Sure, your exabyte of data fits on a postage stamp but the read/write mechanism is the size of a large German Shepherd...Music does take up a lot of storage, especially if you don't compress and use FLAC. But a lot of that is because people haven't paid for their music. Now if I wanted to d/l every episode of Seinfeld to access whenever and wherever I want, then my storage needs increase 10-fold.
Realistically, without pirating music and video the vast majority of people would never spend the money to have enough content to actually fill a 1TB drive (granted, that's only like 150 HD movies, which isn't overly cost prohibitive for movie buffs/collectors).
On the other hand, when LTE does cover the whole US, I likely ditch any sort of online storage options (limited by capacity or price) and just access everything over my home server that I can play easily on-demand. There's still pockets of 3G or no-service around the country, however, which is a problem for some. Not to mention travelers on an airplane still need the foresight to d/l/transfer whatever content they intend to use while on the plane with no signal.
Maybe the HBO GO app will eventually make the leap to letting us d/l a digital copy of content. I can already watch online as many times as I want, so at some point they should figure out how to let me d/l to watch off-line for as long as I remain a subscriber. Plus, with their "watchlist" feature to let me know when new episodes of favorites are available, that d/l could be set-up automatically.
Realistically, without pirating music and video the vast majority of people would never spend the money to have enough content to actually fill a 1TB drive (granted, that's only like 150 HD movies, which isn't overly cost prohibitive for movie buffs/collectors).
On the other hand, when LTE does cover the whole US, I likely ditch any sort of online storage options (limited by capacity or price) and just access everything over my home server that I can play easily on-demand. There's still pockets of 3G or no-service around the country, however, which is a problem for some. Not to mention travelers on an airplane still need the foresight to d/l/transfer whatever content they intend to use while on the plane with no signal.
Maybe the HBO GO app will eventually make the leap to letting us d/l a digital copy of content. I can already watch online as many times as I want, so at some point they should figure out how to let me d/l to watch off-line for as long as I remain a subscriber. Plus, with their "watchlist" feature to let me know when new episodes of favorites are available, that d/l could be set-up automatically.