A petabyte in your pocket? Peanuts…
Remember my “wacky” bet about the petabyte in your pocket? Well, courtesy from the friendly researchers at Drexel and Penn, we might be much closer than we all postulated. Check the story at Engadget, although not for today, but we’re talking at theoretical densities of 12.8 PB per cubic centimeter, if the manufacturing hurdles can be overcome.
Now I can finally keep my entire porn collection in my pocket! *Skeet Skeet*
On a more serious note, if this happened, what would we put on it?
In my opinion, if we came out with drives this large, it would cause us to “store” higher quality media, which when combined with things like file sharing, will mean the internet speeds will have to greatly increase (100mbps like what they have in parts of europe wouldn’t even cut it).
Of course, the technology is a ways off.