5D Storage, the next
step in storage technology
From
floppy disks, CD-ROMS, SDXC and countless others, storage technology has come a
long way. I remember when I was young a 64gb Hard drive would be the normal,
now the average hard drive contains over 20x the amount of storage in the same
amount of space, not to mention the massive speed improvements. Other forms of
media storage has been introduced as well such as the miniscule microSDXC cards,
the speedy flash memory technology in SSDs and now it’s time for another.
5D
storage is a new recently tested concept which would allow the storage of data
at massive capacities of 360TB in a miniscule form factor which is able to
resist heat of up to 1000 degrees Celsius. 5D storage is created by using a
fento-meter precision laser to alter a small quartz disk’s molecules such that
some are represented as 1s and others as 0s. By altering the disk’s particle structure
in this fashion a storage device is created and with a microscope and another
laser, it can be read. However, this technology is relatively new and has
issues such as it’s slow read and write speeds. Overtime though, improvements
will surely be made like with hard drives and maybe one day it will come to the
consumer market and take the pace of the now extremely popular, SSDs.
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