Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more than current
data storage densities.
Not exact matches
«Nanoparticle films for high -
density data storage: New holographic
data storage medium could enable wearable technology that captures and stores detailed 3 - D images.»
«It's exactly what the disk - drive industry needs if it wants to maintain the growth rates in
data -
storage density.»
Whereas chips with horizontal racetracks alone could out - compete flash memory, creating «forests» of vertical racetracks on a silicon substrate would yield three - dimensional memory chips with
data -
storage densities surpassing those of hard drives, Parkin says.
One attractive feature of the technology is that the racetracks could be arrayed in three - dimensional forests, leading to vastly greater
densities of
data storage than in current two - dimensional schemes.
Therefore, they are presently being discussed as candidates for high
density, energy - saving
data storage and processing.
«We believe this is the highest -
density data -
storage device ever created,» said Erlich.
Now, researchers report that they've come up with a new way to encode digital
data in DNA to create the highest -
density large - scale
data storage scheme ever invented.
As we generate more and more
data, the need for high -
density data storage that remains stable over time is becoming critical.
New holographic
data storage medium could enable wearable technology that captures and stores detailed 3 - D images As we generate more and more
data, the need for high -
density data storage th... Read more
Future ultrahigh -
storage -
density MRAM memory chip promises to outperform RAM and flash memory for AI, IoT, and 5G applications and reduce power needs in
data centers
That's a four - times increase of
storage density and 300 times increase in
data lifespan over current
storage... read more
In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented
storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population
density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better
data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.
The
data density of DNA - based
data storage is rather impressive: a single gram of DNA
storage can hold 455 exabytes of
data.
As user capacity demand trends continue to rise, the high -
density 960 PRO capacities are poised to conveniently meet the needs of personal
data and information
storage.
As we generate more and more
data, the need for high -
density data storage that remains stable over time is becoming critical.