360 TB data in a tiny 5D digital disc
360 TB data, could you imagine how big it is, the researchers from Southampton University of Uk has came up with a 5D digital disc of coin size which can store such huge data into this tiny disc, and facinating thing here is, the time for which this disc could hold the data is around 13.8 billion years.
How it works?
So you might be thinking of the two extra dimensions here, lets first have the glimpse of how this extraordinary disc is structured. To create the disc researchers have used a process call femtosecond laser writing, which creates a small disc of glasses using a fast laser, which genrates short and intense pulses of light and these pulses could write the data in three layers of nanostructured dots seprated by very close distance, the extra dimensions here signify the orientation and shape of these dots.
Application
As we all know the amount of data genrating everyday is in billions, so 5d disc here could solve the storage problem here. Followng are the fields where it can revolutinaries the storage system.
- Data center of google, facebook, oracle, github and other giants.
- Costs of storge devices.
- Museums, libraries and other information hub.
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Wow i love to have one such disc
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