Tweezy Posted May 6, 2011 Content Count: 3791 Joined: 08/08/09 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2011 Hard drives based on depleted uranium could allow millions of terabytes of information to be stored in an area no bigger than a fingernail. Read the full article below; Single-molecule magnet created from depleted uranium | News | The Engineer Link to comment
Epsilon Posted May 6, 2011 Content Count: 431 Joined: 03/25/11 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2011 (edited) Read the full article below; Single-molecule magnet created from depleted uranium | News | The Engineer It would be cool if it didn't kill itself (memory wise) on what is a normal day for us Edited May 6, 2011 by Epsilon spelling issues Link to comment
Tweezy Posted May 6, 2011 Content Count: 3791 Joined: 08/08/09 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2011 (edited) It would be cool if it didn't kill itself (memory wise) on what is a normal day for us Think about how small HDD's were 20 years ago! This could be used commercially in 20-30 years! Though, I bet it would cost a lot of facking money -_- It'a amazing though, millions of Terabytes fit into something the size of your finger nail... Edited May 6, 2011 by Tweezy Link to comment
PotshotPolka Posted May 6, 2011 Content Count: 6084 Joined: 03/31/08 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2011 Depleted uranium isn't as ridiculously expensive as you think, they fire bullets made out of them. Link to comment
Tweezy Posted May 6, 2011 Content Count: 3791 Joined: 08/08/09 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2011 Depleted uranium isn't as ridiculously expensive as you think, they fire bullets made out of them. Oh! I never knew that, maybe it will be around the price of SSD's? You've also got to remember we'll be paying for the manufacturing costs of the drives, god knows how much that would be.. Link to comment
PotshotPolka Posted May 6, 2011 Content Count: 6084 Joined: 03/31/08 Status: Offline Share Posted May 6, 2011 Oh! I never knew that, maybe it will be around the price of SSD's? Well, SSDs were stupid expensive when they first rolled out, so probably. Link to comment
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