FACT : The memory crystals you saw in the latest superman movie, the ones containing the history of superman's planet krypton? Well, we humans now possess that kind of technology!
Researchers at the University of Southampton claim to have made a ground-breaking breakthrough in computer technology. Data storage technologies to be exact.
Coined as "Superman Memory Crystals" after the memory crystals in the movie "Superman" containing the history and knowledge of the planet "Krypton", these 5-D memory discs, are the only human technology with the ability to even outlive the human race! Even without losing any data stored in it, Thus giving us a chance to preserve all that we've learned almost eternally, thereby giving a chance to other intelligent life forms which come across it to learn about us.
The newly developed storage promises an unprecedented storage of 360TB( 1TB = 1024 GB = 1048576MB), beating all other forms of storage, including the maximum capacity of latest generation quad layer Blu-Ray discs, which is about 128GB.
Another exciting feature is that this glass based storage technique can keep data intact for millions of years, while a regular DVD can play faultlessly for about 7 years.
Researchers are calling it a 5-D disc because in addition to the three dimension position of these nano-structures, the reflection and polarization characteristics of the glass work as two additional characteristics.
A 300 kb digital text file was successfully recorded and retrieved in the tests using the ultra fast femto-second laser ( femto = one millionth of a billionth of a second), on experimental basis.
So much for superman technology hah!
Sources : http://rt.com/news/5d-nanostructured-glass-optical-memory-941/
Researchers at the University of Southampton claim to have made a ground-breaking breakthrough in computer technology. Data storage technologies to be exact.
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| This small disc can accommodate data worth 2,800 Blu-Ray discs for millions of years ! |
" It is thrilling to think that we have created the first document which will likely survive the human race. This technology can secure the last evidence of civilization;all we've learnt will not be forgotten-Prof. Peter G. Kazansky "
The newly developed storage promises an unprecedented storage of 360TB( 1TB = 1024 GB = 1048576MB), beating all other forms of storage, including the maximum capacity of latest generation quad layer Blu-Ray discs, which is about 128GB.
Another exciting feature is that this glass based storage technique can keep data intact for millions of years, while a regular DVD can play faultlessly for about 7 years.
Researchers are calling it a 5-D disc because in addition to the three dimension position of these nano-structures, the reflection and polarization characteristics of the glass work as two additional characteristics.
A 300 kb digital text file was successfully recorded and retrieved in the tests using the ultra fast femto-second laser ( femto = one millionth of a billionth of a second), on experimental basis.
So much for superman technology hah!
Sources : http://rt.com/news/5d-nanostructured-glass-optical-memory-941/
millions of years < forever ...
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