The diamond wafers with the storage of a billion Blu-ray discs

[WYP]

Will your next SSD be diamond based?



Read more about the diamond wafers that can store as much data as a billion blu-ray discs.

 

[KingNosser]

Just need to win the lotto think one will be enough but i have no idea how or when if ever we'll be able to get one atm i have 15.25tbs with 3 more on the way but just one of these should be enough for my storage needs for the rest of my lifetime

I guess it all depends on how viable the production process is but i don't see these being cheap lmao

 

[ET3D]

Yeah, I imagine they'd be expensive and not aimed at home consumers, but this really would revolutionise archiving.


With synthetic diamond production advancing quite a bit in recent years, I imagine that the cost to produce won't be too terrible, but considering that one such wafer will replace about a thousand tapes, I imagine that costing as much as a thousand tapes, or around $100,000, will be considered reasonable, especially when considering the space saving.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Imagine a home server with one of those bad boys.

 

[Anon]

is this the tech where you can't rrase the data written to the crystal?

 

[dazbobaby]

Now explain to your boss how you lost that tiny diamond with 25 exabytes of data on it.














I'm sure the actual device will be bigger and much harder to lose.
I read about this in PCFormat back in the early 90's when IBM worked on the technology, they claimed it was due within 10 years. So you know, 20 years later... and it'll be another 10 years.


My questions are:
1. Can you write to it like a typical drive?
2. Can you delete once you have finished with a file? This is kind of moot, I mean 25 exabytes, who's going to fill up that thumb drive?

3. Data speeds...?

 

[ET3D]

1. Can you write to it like a typical drive?
2. Can you delete once you have finished with a file? This is kind of moot, I mean 25 exabytes, who's going to fill up that thumb drive?
3. Data speeds...?

I see this as an archive device, so my guesses are:

1. Probably not, but if it's fast enough for reading then reading might happen like a normal drive. Think optical media.

2. My guess is not. Again, archive device.

3. Probably reads will be faster than writes. Since the promise is for commercial availability next year, I imagine that writes will be fast enough for commercial use, so at least, say, 100MB/s. Hopefully a lot more, because at 100MB/s it will take 8 years to fill one wafer.

These are all purely guesses.