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what's in the works for the future of computer data storage I mean we've gone

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from 2 gabt to 2 terabytes being a

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typical amount of PC storage in less than 20 years a thousandfold increase so

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are things just going to keep becoming exponentially more capacitors why don't

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we start answering this question with a look at our old friend the mechanical

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hard drive already there are a number of

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Technologies in the works that will make hard drives more spacious while still

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allowing them to fit in that familiar 3 and 1/2 in enclosure hard drive makers

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like Seagate and Western Digital are working on Technologies such as shingled

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magnetic recording which overlaps data tracks to essentially make them narrower

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bit patterned media which can encode one bit of data to just one magnetic grain

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instead of a group and heat assisted magnetic recording or hammer

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which heats up small areas of the hard disk allowing the magnetic grains

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themselves that store the data to be a lot smaller and you can learn more about

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hammer in this video here these Technologies are expected to help push

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hard drive capacities to 50 terabytes by

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the year 2020 wow but aside from changing how

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magnetic platter data recording Works manufacturers are also looking at using

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more exotic materials hard drives filled with helium instead of good oldfashioned

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air are already on the market since

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helium is less dense than air there's less fluid resistance when the drive

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platters spin meaning more precise positioning of the Reed right head with

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lower power consumption and all of this without making your mp3 sound like the

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singer just sucked air from a balloon of

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course by this point you may have moved off of hard drives in favor of ssds in

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which case you might be more interested in Intel and micron's 3D Cross Point

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which features very dense Arrangements of memory cells that don't require

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transistors leading to higher capacities 3D Cross Point will also have latencies

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up to a, times lower than traditional

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nand and will last for much longer than a conventional SSD meaning we could see

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drives much bigger and faster than what we have today and Samsung is also

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working on a competing technology called zand though they're being uh quite tight

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lipped about how it works but we're not

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just restricted to making traditional hard drives larger or making smaller and

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smaller transistors for our ssds there's

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holographic data storage that takes the concept of a dual layer optical disc to

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a completely new dimension instead of just storing data in a two-dimensional

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pattern of what are effectively pits in the the surface holographic discs can

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store data in threedimensional patterns

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using nearly the entire thickness of the disc in fact multi-terabyte single diss

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may be available at some point though

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progress on actually getting holographic storage to Market has been agonizingly

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slow and unfortunately the Jedi Council only existed very far away and very long

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ago so they're not really around to show us how holocrons work but although none

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of us actually have mitoch chlorians in our blood the farther flung future of

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data storage might be inside our own

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bodies I'm talking about DNA the

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chemical that stores your entire genetic code down to that weird mole on your

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butt so if you think back to high school biology you might remember that each

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base pair of your DNA is either at or GC

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meaning that DNA could be used as a

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digital storage medium with each base pair corresponding to a one or a zero

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biologists have been synthesizing DNA in the lab for quite a few years for tons

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of different applications so perhaps it shouldn't be that surprising that

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scientists are looking at it as a way to store data other than your genome a

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single cubic millimeter of DNA can hold

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over 685 terabytes of data so just think of

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of how many games videos and dank memes

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a DNA Drive could hold one day even if

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it were only the size of a modern SD card DNA is also very stable and could

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hold data for millions of years making it potentially a great choice for

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archival storage down the line but hold on a minute lonus how do you retrieve

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information from a puddle well although

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scientists work with DNA in liquid form don't scoff at the concept of liquid

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state storage researchers have recently used clusters of nanop particles only

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about five microns wide about the same size as your typical bacterium suspended

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in a fluid to hold huge amounts of data I'm talking one terabyte in only a

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tablespoon this works by using small temperature changes to rearrange these

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nanop particles to different states and since each cluster of these particles

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can have millions of different states not just the binary zero and one we're

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all used to liquid state storage could reach capacities that just aren't

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possible with present-day Tech no word

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though on when liquid drives might hit the market or if you'll have to buy them

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