There are ultra-high capacity enterprise 100TB SSDs and 18TB HDDs commercially available (though they will cost you). A 1 PB drive is well within physical limits of the next couple of process iterations but 10PB is probably unlikely because read/write issues come into play.
I seem to remember looking into the physical limitations of storage and something like pure Diamonoid Computronium is in the 100s of exa bytes (good luck reading it at speed tho), and the theoretical physical limits of information storage is about 10^66 bytes per cubic cm or something like that. We've got space to grow.
This makes me curious: Is this because MTBF of any given cell makes an array that large impossible with current processes, or because you start bumping the into write endurance vs capacity issues?
Can't make cells smaller than a certain number of electrons with current tech (quantum dot based processes are trying to work around this) Write endurance doesn't seem to be a real issue at this point but I'm only a minor in Materials Science so Shrug
There are ultra-high capacity enterprise 100TB SSDs and 18TB HDDs commercially available (though they will cost you). A 1 PB drive is well within physical limits of the next couple of process iterations but 10PB is probably unlikely because read/write issues come into play.
I seem to remember looking into the physical limitations of storage and something like pure Diamonoid Computronium is in the 100s of exa bytes (good luck reading it at speed tho), and the theoretical physical limits of information storage is about 10^66 bytes per cubic cm or something like that. We've got space to grow.
This makes me curious: Is this because MTBF of any given cell makes an array that large impossible with current processes, or because you start bumping the into write endurance vs capacity issues?
Can't make cells smaller than a certain number of electrons with current tech (quantum dot based processes are trying to work around this) Write endurance doesn't seem to be a real issue at this point but I'm only a minor in Materials Science so Shrug