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It's not even 5 megabytes, as the e-mail suggests. At 7 bits per character and five million characters, you'd be looking at 4 megabytes and some change.
At this point in history, I'm pretty sure we could put a megabyte on something the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
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Smaller. Average HDDs on the market have a data density of about 100 - 150 Gbit/square inch. Seagate and Toshiba are experimenting with perpendicular recording tech; density up to 421 Gbit/square inch has been shown, and could theoretically reach 1 Tbit/square inch. You could probably fit 6 or 7 megabytes in a period at 150 Gbit/sqin; maybe more, I'm not sure exactly how big a period is.
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And I'm still waiting for the isolinear chip.
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Comin'. Only it's called 'holographic memory.' Two lasers are shone through a cube of photosensitive crystal; a dark spot forms where they cross, and that's a 1; a light spot is a 0. Fit a terabyte on a crystal the size of a sugar cube in theory. It's lagging a bit in development.
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quote:Originally posted by Dat: And I'm still waiting for the isolinear chip.
Some Trekkie will eventually make a USB flash drive to look like an isolinear chip soon enough. If it hasn't been done already. I'd buy one. All I have is a 512MB flash drive I bought in Singapore back in 2003. At the time it was a lot smaller than ones available in the US.
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I'm still waiting for bio-neural gel packs.
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Daniel Butler
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I remember shelling out $30 for a 256mb flash drive two years ago; now I see 1gig models for $18 all the time. It's *fun* to live in Moore's Law! ;P
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quote:Originally posted by Hobbes:
quote:Originally posted by Dat: And I'm still waiting for the isolinear chip.
Some Trekkie will eventually make a USB flash drive to look like an isolinear chip soon enough. If it hasn't been done already. I'd buy one. All I have is a 512MB flash drive I bought in Singapore back in 2003. At the time it was a lot smaller than ones available in the US.
Well, there's a USB drive that's made to look like the Ducati 1098. Pretty neat, but at close to $200, it's just like a real Ducati, for what you get, seriously overpriced.
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