New Hydrogen Atom-Based Storage Technology Lets You Fit 138TB On A Fingernail-Sized Chip

[Matrix]

For years hard drive manufacturers have been using helium to boost their storage capacity. Now, there might be a new element that could improve storage even more, thanks to Canadian researchers who say they can use hydrogen atoms to boost storage capacity.

 

 

Researchers at the University of Alberta have successfully developed an all new way to use hydrogen atoms to store data. They applied the atoms to a silicon chip about half the size of a fingernail. Then, to write the ones and zeroes integral to storing data, they cut and pasted individual atoms with the help of a scanning tunneling microscope.

 

Because they’re working at an atomic level, the researchers were able to store massive amounts of data in miniscule packages. They were able to reach a storage density of a whopping 128TB per square inch. That’s miles ahead of current day 10TB hard disks which have approximately 512GB per square inch. 

"Essentially, you can take all 45 million songs on iTunes and store them on the surface of one quarter,” doctoral student Roshan Achal says. And if that’s what you can do with a storage device that could balance on your fingertip, what could you do with a passport-sized hard disk?

 

 

The problem with this is obvious however. To read or write any data to the hydrogen hard disk, you’d need a scanning tunneling microscope, which is not just ridiculously expensive, but also huge. In addition, it’s not a very fast process. The researchers say it took them a little less than 15 minutes to just record the first 24 notes of the Super Mario Bros. theme.

 

However, it’s still a step towards more efficient storage in the future. Perhaps other researchers will find a way to miniaturise the components of the STM needed to work this device. Or better yet, they instead develop storage technology with accessible pieces based on this breakthrough. Either way, we’ll hopefully be seeing much more massive hard disks in the near future.

 

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[Dushyantsinh Chavda]

I am waiting for this invention in practical use. 

I hope all hurdles have a solution. (speed, cost, size etc! --> like ENIAC to Intel Generation 9)

A step toward less use of natural sources.

I hope, this may be energy saver.

[Archanus]

18 hours ago, Dushyantsinh Chavda said:

I am waiting for this invention in practical use. 

I hope all hurdles have a solution. (speed, cost, size etc! --> like ENIAC to Intel Generation 9)

A step toward less use of natural sources.

I hope, this may be energy saver.

 

Yes bro, and also there are new technology to make data storage in Cells

 

https://gizmodo.com/living-bacteria-can-now-store-data-1781773517