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"Rather than spend millions of dollars for an array of hard drives when you can have all that storage on just one drive? A story at P2P.net US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn ultimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage, to be exact. According to the article, In the past, data storage has only been able to orient the direction a field of electrons as they move around a molecule, Thomas said. "But now there's a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule," he says. He expects a finished product to be on the market in about four to five years, adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each."

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Hey umm, how many terabytes in a petabyte? 1000?
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Would take a long time to format......
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Good God. That's a lot.

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Default Re: 1.2 Pedabyte Harddrive! The Madness!
It would take alot of stuff to fill that 1.2 Pedabyte Harddrive.
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Pedabyte? And I though Terabyte drives were overkill
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Default Re: 1.2 Pedabyte Harddrive! The Madness!
jesús christo! that's a lot of space. that's like.... all of apples music.... 900 times.... or all of ff's files... 80 times....

hmmm... what's the seek time on this monster?

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Hey umm, how many terabytes in a petabyte? 1000?
theres 1024 kb in a mb, 1024 mb in a gb, 1024 gb in a tb, and i believe it would be the same for a pb, 1024 tb in one pb
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Would take a long time to format......
starr the format, then take a vacation...! lol
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adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each.
Why would you want to spend that much on a HD alone?

Wow, 1.2 Petabytes...... I don't even have my 160GB half filled yet.....
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1pb, think of all the porn you can store on of them!

Yes that will be alot of space, but they are directing this at people who need massive ammounts of storage. This is also 5 years down the line. In 5 years we will have 60gb+ DVD's and faster internet(hopefully) so we can fill these things with something.
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hmmm. thats an awfull lot of space there
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