19th February 2006, 9:13 PM
19th February 2006, 11:48 PM
1.2 peta bytes?
20th February 2006, 12:10 AM
Yes.
On a beast like that you could store so many average-sized MP3 files that you wouldn't hear a song repeat itself until around June of 4146.
THAT is technology I NEED.
On a beast like that you could store so many average-sized MP3 files that you wouldn't hear a song repeat itself until around June of 4146.
THAT is technology I NEED.
20th February 2006, 11:34 AM
What would you put on such a harddrive?
20th February 2006, 12:35 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:What would you put on such a harddrive?
<i>The internet</i>.
20th February 2006, 1:13 PM
Data.
20th February 2006, 4:47 PM
With current internet speeds i dont see such a HDD being a realistic need. For an editor yes, or anyone knee deep in a graphics workstation, absolutely. But for consumers, no way. i have over 6000 mp3's, gigs upon gigs of full-length porn movies, entire CD rom games, tens of thousands of samples in CD quality audio etc etc and i'm no where near my limit of 150 gigs. In order for an HDD of that size to be needed for consumers, transfer speeds will need to increase 20 fold. To the point of d/l a few dozen gigs taking less than 20 minutes and even then, what would you be d/l? Porn, bootleg or online purchased HD films and full versions of video games; they're the only things (as far as average consumers go) that takes up gigs at a time.
When we have 600MB/sec d/l speeds people will start needing huge storage devices, but not now. It would be a stupid purchase with absolutely no purpose for the average consumer. An HD editor would probably fill it within the span of 5 or 6 films, animators and renderers at Pixar would do it to, everyone else would end up with a incredibly stupid device with no worth.
When we have 600MB/sec d/l speeds people will start needing huge storage devices, but not now. It would be a stupid purchase with absolutely no purpose for the average consumer. An HD editor would probably fill it within the span of 5 or 6 films, animators and renderers at Pixar would do it to, everyone else would end up with a incredibly stupid device with no worth.
20th February 2006, 5:10 PM
Quote:Data.
20th February 2006, 5:26 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:*pic*
Okay, that was pretty funny.
20th February 2006, 5:59 PM
DATA NOOOOO!
Moving along, this guy seems just a little too optimistic. Consider some of his other projects and goals, specifically regarding "almost zero energy consumption".
Also, I have a feeling the uncertainty principle may take effect at such a small scale, or at least might need to be accounted for.
My prediction? Something like this may be possible, but not in the time frame this person is suggesting. We shall see though.
Moving along, this guy seems just a little too optimistic. Consider some of his other projects and goals, specifically regarding "almost zero energy consumption".
Also, I have a feeling the uncertainty principle may take effect at such a small scale, or at least might need to be accounted for.
My prediction? Something like this may be possible, but not in the time frame this person is suggesting. We shall see though.
20th February 2006, 8:52 PM
With that kind of hard drive I could finally back-up my entire brain. Then, when (if?) I die, they can just build a robot and upload all the information. Boom! I'm back!
But why so short...
But why so short...
20th February 2006, 9:03 PM
Yay, I could save my entire computer and never have to worry about losing anything the next time it needs to be formatted!
20th February 2006, 9:13 PM
I admit that sundch capacity would be limited for personal use (though the guy has a point... once upon a time, 1 GB hard drives were thought to be more than any person would ever need).
But for large businesses? For music and movie studios, who would be able to store literally months of uncompressed video and audio for every conceivable need? And of course, think of smaller-scales of this technology... 5TB MP3 players?
But for large businesses? For music and movie studios, who would be able to store literally months of uncompressed video and audio for every conceivable need? And of course, think of smaller-scales of this technology... 5TB MP3 players?
20th February 2006, 10:03 PM
A quadrillion bytes...
21st February 2006, 1:38 AM
Even if the music is recorded at 24 bit DVDA you would need litteraly millions upon millions of songs to fill such a capacity, it's just rediculous.
21st February 2006, 9:45 AM
It's DECADENT! We can't allow this sort of, WILLY NILLY upgrading without any attention to MORAL issues, as lazy has brought up!
21st February 2006, 8:50 PM
What could you even need that much memory for... but, I guess they'll just keep making bigger, more all-consuming videogames, that eventually use jpeg-photo quality graphics running on smoother engines...
Man that sounds nice.
Man that sounds nice.
22nd February 2006, 2:01 PM
You wouldn't, and that's what is so nice. Look at that brain of yours. To the best of my knowledge, no human has reached maximum memory capacity as of yet. Who knows what extending the human life span may end up doing though... I'd hate to think humans have some sort of "out of memory error". Then again, if we never lived that long, we may never have evolved a mechanism for handling such an occurance.
22nd February 2006, 2:18 PM
Quote:To the best of my knowledge, no human has reached maximum memory capacity as of yet.
They do all the time, it's called getting old and forgetting things that happened when you were younger...or that happened last year....
22nd February 2006, 2:45 PM
How do you know that is the specific mechanism that causes that? First of all, this does not apply to all elderly. That alone calls your conclusion into doubt. Secondly, I had read in the past that the mechanism responsible was that in those who's memory becomes faulty, simply put the neural connections begin to break down and the ability to create new connections itself breaks down.
To assume anything further is just that: assuming.
To assume anything further is just that: assuming.