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Transcend’s Stainless Steel JetFlash 180 Flash Drive

The new Transcend JetFlash 180 is a flash drive clad in lovely stainless steel. And I know many of you out there are like me, suckers for sleek-looking stuffs like this. The drives come in 1GB, 4GB, and 8GB. Transcend also throws in PC-locking, data and email encryption, and data synchronization. And price? No price announced yet. [...]

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Three Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) on a CD-R?!

Yes, three-holy-terabytes (3,000-gigabytes) of data on an optical disc the size of our regular CD-R might just be possible soon! Harvard researchers have developed an “optical nano antenna” which helps focus light from an inexpensive laser onto a spot size of 40-nanometers. To put things into perspective: CDs use lasers with a wavelength of 780-nanometers, DVDs [...]

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50-Terabytes of Data on DVDs?!

Prof. Renugopalakrishnan and his team at Harvard Medical School in Boston have discovered a unique protein that could possibly be used to store up to 50,000-gigabytes (50-terabytes) of data onto medium the size of our DVDs. Well, I’ve covered ferroelectricity technology that promises more than a thousand times greater storage space than this. But both technologies [...]

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Fancy a Million-Gigabtye Hard Drive?

Researchers have finally found a way to create storage devices that are capable of storing millions of gigabytes of data. With the use of ferroelectric, the researchers from Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania are able to squeeze 12.8 million gigabytes of information into a cubic centimeter. Very amazing indeed. Until recently, researchers were not able [...]

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