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Scottish researchers working on

Filed in archive on April 25, 2006

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Researchers at Glasgow University are working on advanced storage tecniques. The team is developing a nano-cell that would be able to store about 40TB of memory. Nano-cells are clusters of molecules 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.
This would be the next-gen data-storage that could cram "10,000 more 'storage units' into a given area than is currently possible." That would pump that 0.85-inch drive up to 40TB. Deets are sketchy, so we're taking a wait-and-see on this, but that won't stop us from thinking about how we could fill all that space. Let's see, that's 10 million songs, 8,000 movies, the Library of Congress ...

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