large capacity hard drive

You know the hard drive? That tuh ... a place to store the OS and files on your kompie. This time, there is exciting news. IBM, one of the legendary company in the IT field, now has a major project. A set of researchers who joined the company IBM is making with the largest capacity hard drive that has never existed in the computer world.


IBM made ​​the hard drive is said to have a capacity of 120 petabytes, or 120 million gigabytes! WOW ... amazing. Not inconceivable how long we will be able to meet the hard disk with plain text files, unless mixed with songs or movies. I could have such a giant hard drive with capacity can load mp3 song files by about 20-billion files! Just info, this is now the largest capacity hard drive with the existing is 15 petabytes.


How IBM is making the disk itself? It turned out to reach 120 petabytes capacity consists of a series of 200 thousand pieces of hard disk combined into one. The execution of the project is done in CA Lab Research, Almaden.


Waah unimaginable, what prices are pegged by IBM if it will be made ​​in bulk.