1980′s Solid State Hard Drive – Biological Storage Device!
March 22nd, 2010 Posted in Cool Gadgets
A 100 Gigabyte Solid state storage device from the 1980′s, it works using green and red lasers to store and read the data. As explained in the video, the problem they had is that in the process of reading the information it also destroys the information. They get around this problem by using another laser to rewrite every bit…. To find out more about this and other cool gadgets and gizmo’s then please visit www.hack247.co.uk
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March 22nd, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Yeah no shit!
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:31 pm
I wonder what kind of crazy shit they’re working on now that we’ll hear about in 30 years.
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Yes. But hey, i got a 70gb used of system partition
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Yes, I know, but not all computer have them. most people just use them as a fast boot drive with their data on another drive
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Yes there’s SSD of 128 and 256gb ( And even more. )
March 22nd, 2010 at 2:15 pm
not in Solid State they dont.
March 22nd, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Solid State Hard Drive though?
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I think the device they showed is really the highest density they could get, give or take a few tens of magnitudes, but if they could get it to work three-dimensionally then it would be quite useful.
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I know people have said that before, but REALLY, no single person should ever need that much space, as, according to the BBC, “A brontobyte is million million petabytes, enough to store everything that’s ever been filmed, taped, photographed, recorded, written, spoken, and probably even thought.”, however the human race may decide to use it if we want to backup everyone’s things in one place.
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
I’m not sure about quadrupling, but if it quadrupling, it wouldn’t be 100gb * 4 * 30, rather it would be 100 * 4 to the power of 30.
100gb * 4 ^ 30 = 100gb * 2 ^ 60 = roughly 93 brontobytes (a brontobyte is 1024 yottabytes and is inconceivable, in fact, you would need roughly 1,152,921.5 kilograms of the particular protein for that much storage, which would work out at roughly 212 cubic metres. That’s not really that practical, nor would we ever need that much space.
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
lol now have all computer least 100 gb space xD
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:40 pm
dude
you have any idea how huge 100gb was back in the 80s, even for research purposes?
that law about the amount of space a given area of computer chip quadrupling every year. familiar with it?
100gb x 4 x 30
12 terrabytes. purdy big
March 22nd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
lol
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Poor bastards were clueless… Never would have worked. Hey, were talking about jiggabytes now…
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:15 pm
It will be getting harder to find a 100gb HD. Terabyte era is coming.
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:36 pm
d.o.p.e. latch
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:46 pm
u know this video is old when the guy says “jiggabytes” -_- 0_o
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:10 pm
great post, would have loved a 100gb hdd in the 80s, also sound stupid but i loved the anologe distortion, forgot what happens when vhs (and sum times beta) gets a bit damages. great post from the past and apreciate ur time
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Reliable.
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 pm
loo jiggabytes
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Holy crap, 100gb!!!?!
I’ve gotta get myself one of them!!!
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Awesome video! Even the tracking failure gives it a certain flavor..
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
adjust your tracking (‘_’)
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:06 am
Wow… makes you wonder where they are with that now almost 30 years later..
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:03 am
retarded science