12.8 Petabytes, You Say?

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday May 10, @12:11PM
from the will-it-happen dept.

MadUndergrad writes "Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University has come up with a novel way to greatly increase data storage density: water. Specifically, they propose using hydroxyl ions to stabilize minute ferroelectric wires. These wires could be many times smaller than what is possible today, enabling data densities in the neighborhood of 12-13 PB per cubic centimeter. While there are still many problems to be resolved before drives using these can be manufactured this technology does seem promising. For one thing, it would be non-volatile, but could apparently be made to act as RAM. The fact that this is coming out of a university gives me hope that this technology won't turn out to be just so much vapor."

Storage Capacity seems to be ever increasing. Before we even get to using TeraBytes this comes along. I wonder what impact this will have on the development of Holographic Memory? I mean there really isn't much point in developing a TeraByte storage system if you can get PetaBytes of the stuff. The development of this technology will have major side effects on Holographic memory technology.