500,000 Gb Memory Chip

Thats a pretty interesting read. What an interesting jump in technology this would be were it to be implemented in the next ten years.

It for me would seem like we jumped WAY ahead in one department but lingered behind in others.
 
Nanotech is going to make ours lives helluva easier. I mean, 500.000 GB?! ON A MP3/MP4? Can't even imagine the kind of information that will be stored on a harddrive!
 
that kinda tech aint here yet.

yes sure, IBM succeeded in using nanotubes for uberfast storage. potential is termendous! but they've only succeeded in writing two bits. wow, i'm so impressed.

these kinda titles are very misleading indeed.
 
The article lost a good oportunity to introduce the Terabyte to the readers - it's not really common. 500Tb is huge, thought.

Wonder whow long it will take for the annoucement of the first thingy using Exabytes. HD's with 100Eb... hmm... :roll:
 
A few years back I was installing Wing Commander 4 (or 3, I don't remember, it was the first one on CDs) and it had a message I found very quaint. Something along the lines of "This game will store a MINIMUM amount of information on your hard drive to conserve space."

Odd. There was a time when space was more valuable than speed.

Also, when I installed Balder's Gate for the first time it took up my entire hard drive, all 2.2 gigs.

I feel like we have gained so much more in storing information than we have in processing speed and graphics.
 
Yea no kidding. In 96 or 97 I had a computer with a 1GB drive and it was $2k and was all badass. Thats 1GB (in all honesty, it could have been 2GB but no more), I even remember worrying about how much space Duke Nukem 3D took up. Now I got a 500GB computer and I'm thinking 'will I ever fill it up?'
 
maximaz said:
Yea no kidding. In 96 or 97 I had a computer with a 1GB drive and it was $2k and was all badass. Thats 1GB (in all honesty, it could have been 2GB but no more), I even remember worrying about how much space Duke Nukem 3D took up. Now I got a 500GB computer and I'm thinking 'will I ever fill it up?'
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Uggs... I can't remember back that far... I think I had an 800meg drive... I don't recall what was in my Mac II Si before the 75mhz beastly PC running a ATi Rage Fury Pro a mile long.
 
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