The 500,000 GB MP3 Player

Digital Trends reports that scientists at the University of Glasgow have discovered a way to increase storage capacity by 150,000 times: "It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square."

Hmm...a 500,000 GB drive. I can think bigger than song storage:

  • Digital versions of enough texts to dwarf the holdings of a university library.
  • Record every moment of my life with a portable, always on, video cam (admittedly, might take a few of these chips, but it would take a long time to fill one up).
  • Take snapshots and store entire sections of the Internet on a given day.
  • Geek desire: high resolution video of every sci-fi series and movie ever made :-)

What kind of uses could you imagine for a storage drive this size?

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cel4145's picture

50 million

This does mean that someone could put 50 million or so songs on an mp3 player. So much for needing P2P networks to trade music files anymore.

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