terabyte cube

[Hom3r]

I read about a year ago of a new storage device which hold over 1 Terabyte of date on a media the size of a sugar cube.

Its made from some new polymer/plastic that uses two lasers to to read/write data, each bit of data is 400 nanometres long and 100 nanometres apart. If the lasers are on one point for more than 1 femto second it will crack the cube.

I can't find anything on it yet

I'll give brain dump a search.

[gazzae]

There you go... http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise...rnal/vol1/ary/

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by david.ewles

I read about a year ago of a new storage device which hold over 1 Terabyte of date on a media the size of a sugar cube.

Its made from some new polymer/plastic that uses two lasers to to read/write data, each bit of data is 400 nanometres long and 100 nanometres apart. If the lasers are on one point for more than 1 femto second it will crack the cube.

I can't find anything on it yet

I'll give brain dump a search.

I heard about that much longer than a year ago, I'm beggining to think that maybe there where problems with the technology so maybe we will never see it (at least not in its current incarnation).
Afterall its been at least 4 years since I first heard of it, thats more than enough time to make it to the retail market, and there certainly is a market for storage that size.
Though thinking about it, hasnt this allready been superceded by quantumn storage even if it does come out? If I remember right quantumn can hold about 200TB in a small rectangular strip (about the size of a current RAM Dimm.)