Imagine being able to store some 40,000 songs. Every waking play, you’re in for a treat as you’ll never get the same songs during shuffle. Well with that amount of songs you will require some 500,000 GB of capacityh
Impossible last week but not in the future as there’s a breakthrough as scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times
It’s all in the molecule-sized switch that’s at the heart of it all as claimed by the Glasgow scientists
Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow made a statement:
“What we have done is find a way to potentially increase the data storage capabilities in a radical way. We have been able to assemble a functional nanocluster that incorporates two electron donating groups, and position tem precisely 0.32 nm apart so that they can form a totally new type of molecular switching device.
The key advantage of the molecule sized switch is information / transistor density in traditional semi-conductors. Molecule sized switches would lead to increasing data storage to say 4 Petabits per square inch.
This breakthrough shows conceptually that this is possible (showing the bulk effect) but we are yet to solve the fabrication and addressing problems.
The fact these switches work on carbon means that they could be embedded in plastic chips so silicon is not needed and the system becomes much more flexible both physically and technologically”
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At an average mp3 size of 5 MB, that would 100 million songs, if i’m not mistaken.
Looks like your math is off:
MP3s are about 1mb per minute, songs are around 3 minutes long on average… so 40,000 songs = 120,000 MB or 120 GB.
120,000 minutes = 2000 hours = 83.33 days.
1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes.
If you had 4 petabytes of space… Let’s see here…
4,000,000,000 megabytes. 3 mb per song is 1,333,333,333 songs or 22,222,222 hours or 925,925 days or 2,536 years worth of music.
That’s only 12,5GB per song! Must be really good quality tunes.
500,000 gb holds 40,000 songs? What songs do you listen to, never ending operas?
500,000 gb / 40,000 songs = 12.6 gb per song.
based on a more realistic idea of 250 songs per gigabyte youd get 125,000,000 songs on a 500,000 gb player. which is obviously ridiculous.
Are you sure you got the numbers right?