Though a scheme for the dense arrangement and addressing of these nanowires remains to be developed, such an approach would enable a storage density of more than 100,000 terabits per cubic centimeter. If this memory density can be realized commercially, a device the size of an ipod nano could hold enough MP3 music to play for 300,000 years without repeating a song or enough DVD quality video to play movies for 10,000 years without repetition
this would be AWESOME! Imagine how many Linus Distro i could install onto that and how much of the internet could fit on it.
Also imagine how much the RAM would benifit from this technology. With a a ram like this, A large scale business office could have it entire database for each and every users on one computer with speciallized multi-user hardware configuration.
Meh, I’m sure that you would manage somehow to fill a 12PB drive within a few years… I always manage to fill up my hard drives pretty quickly no matter how big they are…
I wonder about MTBF though. When you have internal components so small, they are more susceptible to breaking. I prefer to keep stuff I need to store long term (3 years plus) on non-volatile media.
I think this kind of storage might be used more for the movie industry. Those guys have to keep terabytes of uncompressed media for each film.
If that kind of media gets cheap enough, I think we will see ultra small/thin computers. Hard drives and optical drives are what take up the most amount of space inside computers.