What comes after the Terabyte?
I’ve a question: what comes after the Terabyte?
8 bits = 1 Byte
What comes after the Byte ?
1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
What comes after the kilobyte ?
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
What comes after the Megabyte ?
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
What comes after the Gigabytes ?
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
What comes after the Terabytes?
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
What comes after the Petabytes ?
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
What comes after the Exabyte ?
1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte
What comes after the zettabyte ?
1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte
It will be almost impossible to create a computer with a YHZ of speed, because in order to create a processor with that many transistors, and keep each transistor above 100 atoms, the processor would have to be about as big as a 5 by 5 foot table! Rendering it to large for practical use. I have a Two Linked Mac Pros with 3.22 GHZ 4 quad core processors with 32 gb ram, i think for right now this is about as powerful you can get
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34.Charles on June 22, 2008
That may be, but digital memory is more or less lossless, i.e. we biologically remember general information in huge swaths, but it’s very very difficult to maintain even a small amount of any data at 100% of accuracy. Which is pretty much what makes us all unique, the ability to be forever unique and survice without needing to be 100% accurate. Try that with any computer, and they all fail instantly.
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Interesting that this thread has been going on for just over 2 years and 4 months today, and how far computing power has forged ahead and prices have dropped, for us ordinary folks at home. I still remember the headlines when a meg of RAM dropped to just $1, e thought that was so incredible, and it ws for the time. I once paid $300 for boosting my Ksypro 88-2 RAM up to 750K, the limit at that time.
I keep wondering when Moores Law will finally push them to break the 4.0 barrier, and when they will stop making 1.X Ghz chips, or even the 2.x ones and finally get 3.0 and better for everything.
But I am pretty amazed at how fast the Terabyte drive and arrived and even how faster it dropped below $100 price.
But I’ve also read that it’s the little flash drive type cards and etc all the shapes and configurations they come in, that holds a real future. That they knew when they first invented them that the upper limits could easily be a Terabyte in the same size.
And what about Crystal memory storage, in all three dimensions of a cube, tremendous potential and space in just a tiny one. I like these new multi-core machines, just got my first one, 2 core, 2.8 Ghz 64 bit, 6 gigs of RAM, 620 gig HD plus a 23″ monitor for $559 plus tax, was the included monitor that sealed the deal for me. I call these Baby Cray Embryo’s or maybe Craybo’s for short, still working on that tag.
For all this speculation on how the hardware is going to evolve and it will, I keep wondering what we are going to do with it, actually use it for. Personally I’m hoping to live long enough for a real Holo-deck experience. I try not to think too much about the Dark side of it all.
As to the Byte names I like the list in #38 especially the obiwannabyte, it makes me smile
And the brain percentage thing, I believe its that we don’t use more than 10% of the potential at any one time, And we never will exceed that limit until someone either discovers or perhaps re-discovers the proper training methods, techniques, etc, that it requires to access the higher levels of use. Just like you don’t give a 6 year old a Multi-core Nuclear weapon sitting on top of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, sans the user manual, as his first weapon; you get him a toy rubber sword or something similar that he can’t hurt anything with until you can teach him certain responsibilities of ownership. The same applies to the full potential of the human brain and mind..
And that’s my 9.3 cents worth for today
Well since we have terabytes hard drives and gigabytes of ram. i would assume if we ever get a Yottabyte hard drives we would have a Zettabyte of memory. That said we would be at a Zetta-Hertz processor since we are at Giga-hertz now. Even though this seems huge, by the time we get this far programs will be larger and more complicated. Remember there was once a time a 1.44 mb Floppy disk carried the information we needed at the time now we have flash drives that holds 64 gb of information. Remember everything is being digitalized. music was first on a cd, then a dvd movie, now a blue ray. There are some people out there that are working on an Ultra high definition format. Which the resolution is 10 times more then the 1080p. so as long as there are people out there that are pushing the envelope, we will need the computing power to do so. Yes it sounds godly but if we took our computer back to the 70’s where computers took a whole room, we would seem to have a huge system and yet almost everyone has one.
1. I see a computer with YHZ of speed in less than 5 years, in practical use in 10.
Those numbers you just quoted were once placed on the gigabyte technology as well was it not.
2. Human recall is not 100% accurate but memory is ! I point to the fact that from medicine in the form of psychotherapy, science and even entertainment, people retain things they cannot recall in their subconscious memory.
one thing i think alot of people have overlooked is the fact that we already have procesors capable of INSANE! amounts of data a the moment (how much i do not remember) but it is well behond what is currently available / comprihendable.
The problem with these processors is that they generate heat so fast that they are only capable of running for a fraction of a second before they ‘blow up’.
So one main part of the evolution of technology is…..
If the tempriture of the arctic+ all our current technology can not cool these things down… what will?
and secondly if we can finaly figure out how to cool them… how are we going to put it in a PC that isnt the size of a house to keep them cool enough to use.
ps my apologies for my poor english i am still getting the grasp of this.
My response to Kevin… I believe in 10 years we will be laughing at 1 Terabytes. Your comments remind me of a quote I heard years ago when someone said “There is nothing new to learn in science” or “we have learned all there is in science” It makes me chuckle. Think about the first computer… It took up rooms, not just a 5 x 5 foot square of space and did a lot less and was very slow.
well then it seems we have a logical discussion on our hands, the real question in my eyes is not if we can get to those speeds but when. computer technology advances very fast i mean remember when 2GB’s was a lot? and remember the costs of that hardware? but now look you can pick up a 1.5 TB hard drive for under $100.00 USD and thats just whats out right now, by next summer 2 or 3 TB hard drives will be in and sooner or latter someone will develop a new file system or a new way to store data and then we will most likely be seeing petabytes. but on the other side there is the issue with heat, this seems to be the bigist problem with creating computers that compute at the speeds listed above as many have pointed out there is no way to cool these things with anything we know of so in order for computer technology to move forward cooling technology need to advance as well. One possible remedy for this comes from some news that leaked out about a certain computer company developing a way to grow synthetic diamonds to use for some part of the motherboard or CPU now i am no scientist so i don’t know exactly how this is done or how it works but i have been told that by using the diamond in place of other less durable materials that it will allow for greater heats and in turn faster computing speeds, remember hardly any thing is imposable sure the first versions of these computers will be large and impractical but as time rolls on they will grow smaller and more common.
we have only just begun with proccessor speeds. in the near future, proccessors will be made from man made diamonds which are far more effective than silicon in everyway. Its just a matter of time.
I think that in time, maybe 5-15 year, we will have found a way to cool down these processors and make them compact. I’m sure back in the day people said the EXACT same thing about gigabytes and look where we are NOW. laptops the size of the palm of you hand. so do i think it will happen and is possible, YES! i i cant wait to get one!
Someone should take a whole bunch of 500 TB servers and create a YB server the size of a 2000 sq. foot house. That would be something I’d like to see, and take up all its space. Imagine, in 50 years, what we paid $1000 for now will be practically worthless.
While I think diamond will eventually replace silicon its not just about cooling (moving the heat away). They are constantly making chips that produce less heat.
Ways to reduce heat in the first place:
- Run on less voltage
- smaller size
- reduce voltage leakage
- make chips that run on light
to name just a few.
The quote by Ken Koch “With transistors at 65-nanometer sizes, the heating rate would increase 8 times whenever the clock speed was doubled, outstripping our ability to carry the heat away by standard air cooling.” Referring to the leakage problem, not actual power consumption. It was discovered that hafnium-based compound can be employed in gate insulators in the 45 nm generation of integrated circuits from Intel, IBM and others, allowing reduction of the gate leakage current which improves performance. Its the reason for Intel’s hafnium-based process, it reduces leakage.
If you can make a chip that generates less heat then you will have less heat to pump away.
You are all such GEEKS…sure you’ve heard this before…prob at school!!! Did you ever leave????
N00B!
I am wondering why no one has mentioned quantum teleportation yet, though we are not at the stage to use what we know of quantum mechanics.
once we develop a way to use quantum teleportation our computers will be far beyond a yottabyte.
(we are reaching a limit with what we can do, due to the speed of light and how well our “switchs” work. but when we are able to use quantum teleportation it will remove the limitation of the speed of light.)
Interesting that this thread has been going on for just over 2 years and 4 months today, and how far computing power has forged ahead and prices have dropped, for us ordinary folks at home. I still remember the headlines when a meg of RAM dropped to just $1, e thought that was so incredible, and it ws for the time. I once paid $300 for boosting my Ksypro 88-2 RAM up to 750K, the limit at that time.
I keep wondering when Moores Law will finally push them to break the 4.0 barrier, and when they will stop making 1.X Ghz chips, or even the 2.x ones and finally get 3.0 and better for everything.
But I am pretty amazed at how fast the Terabyte drive and arrived and even how faster it dropped below $100 price.
But I’ve also read that it’s the little flash drive type cards and etc all the shapes and configurations they come in, that holds a real future. That they knew when they first invented them that the upper limits could easily be a Terabyte in the same size.
And what about Crystal memory storage, in all three dimensions of a cube, tremendous potential and space in just a tiny one. I like these new multi-core machines, just got my first one, 2 core, 2.8 Ghz 64 bit, 6 gigs of RAM, 620 gig HD plus a 23″ monitor for $559 plus tax, was the included monitor that sealed the deal for me. I call these Baby Cray Embryo’s or maybe Craybo’s for short, still working on that tag.
For all this speculation on how the hardware is going to evolve and it will, I keep wondering what we are going to do with it, actually use it for. Personally I’m hoping to live long enough for a real Holo-deck experience. I try not to think too much about the Dark side of it all.
As to the Byte names I like the list in #38 especially the obiwannabyte, it makes me smile
And the brain percentage thing, I believe its that we don’t use more than 10% of the potential at any one time, And we never will exceed that limit until someone either discovers or perhaps re-discovers the proper training methods, techniques, etc, that it requires to access the higher levels of use. Just like you don’t give a 6 year old a Multi-core Nuclear weapon sitting on top of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, sans the user manual, as his first weapon; you get him a toy rubber sword or something similar that he can’t hurt anything with until you can teach him certain responsibilities of ownership. The same applies to the full potential of the human brain and mind..
And that’s my 9.3 cents worth for today
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Well here we are in 2010. petabyte is on its way and is arriving at an estimated price of $750. Thats right folks 13.5 years of 1080p HD video. And merlin you were right. Solid State Drives are the new leader in high speed hard drives. They are dropping in cost and growing in storage size. In fact 1 terabyte SSD drives are now availible. Moores Law has pushed processors graphics cards and RAM to all new plateaus with DDR4 and Quad SLI GPU. I remember in 1990 when my dad spent 3 grand on a quantex computer with a 1 gb hard drive. I dont remeber how much ram that was but I imagine that if you calculated the inflation and purchased a $6000 machine today you could go back in time to 1990 and have the worlds fastest super computer.
My mate and I was just having a rather reminiscent discussion on this subject. As I can remember buying a brand new computer and it having 1 gig on it. That was plenty of rom then too. It was plenty enough to put quite a few games on it and play with absolutely no problem at all. Now there is just a much higher need for memory and the complexity of programs has drastically increased. The great incline in technology in just these so few years is quite amazing.
it sounds like jibberish but alot of memory
it will be possible to create a 1 YHz of speed processors there wil be like a thousands of milligrams of memory and bits of hard drive in the state y drive.
And another thing is that they already have created a processor that can operate at 300 GHZ in room tempurature. I have not looked at the specifics on it but still, that is an impressive feat. Further more under extreme cooling it can operate at 500 GHZ so that just goes to show, some day in the near future I belive once these get shrunk to a practical size we’ll be utilizing these in our everyday lives. The arrival of the one TB SSD is a remarkable milestone in the evolution of computers as well, so as time progresses we shall also see these taking shape in things that we can fit in our mobile devices, imagine having a TB in our hand for photos, hd video, ect… and not to mention a PB in our computers.
I remember in 1996 getting my very first PC and it had a 2GB hard drive on it and i remember people telling you will never fill that up and last week i purchased a 1.5TB hard drive its crazy how far technology has came along
I don’t think we’ll see a YHZ in less than 20 years, but I do see us having CPU speeds that are near petabyte range, and hdd of at least exabytes in 15 years or less. Now they already have petabyte hdd’s, just not commercially, they probably even have exabyte hdds, the government just keeps things under lock and key for a while, either way, it’ll be great when those finally come out, but I know I’ll wait for the big price drops lol
Nano processors.
theoretically, the electrons get pushed around on a sub-atomic level. In theory, the speeds are almost limitless. If i remember correctly
Quantum processors.
theoretically, the electrons get pushed around on a sub-atomic level. In theory, the speeds are almost limitless. If i remember correctly
You all seem to have a superb fascination with technology. You should really try mastering the English language. I am embarrassed to read your pathetic attempts at written communication. Has our society become so dependent on texting to communicate that the basics of our written language will be lost forever?
Shame on you all.
I don’t think the technology we have now will just continue to increase as it has. Someone will come up with some radical concept that will turn us in a different direction. For example, the idea of a weapon of mass destruction was believed long before it was invented. But it was only realized when someone stopped using the same old explosion idea. The atom bomb is an explosion that results from an implosion – a radical idea at the time of conception. For example hard drives started with bytes, on one single plate, and has increase to the terabyte level. But in the background there is the solid state drive and some other concepts that are taking route. Who knows, the computer of the future might operate nothing like it does now???????????????????
I for one am looking forward, but like someone else said on this discussion, what on earth are we the common people going to do with such a monster in our homes? I can certainly see the NASA fold benefiting from it, but not the household.
May the force be with you.
you could get better then 3.2GHZ ive seen CPus overclocked to 4Ghz
umm a kevin first dude to post the coolist thing ever happend a week or so ago odds are you probaly wont see this and might even already know but. around 1month ago this guy made a transister with 8 atom =-)
and thinken of it u are correct the transister can only get so big befor it is well the size of a cofee table as u put it. but maybe just maybe we could make some thing like transisters but better out of subatomic particles hmmm netrons protons electrons and what not. some attoms have 130 netrons or more so if we cut it down to 8 itd be like much tinyier well not as small as a hydrogen atom but its way smaller then silicon atoms.
althou i dont know much about electronics but in the world of tommrow any thing is possible.
hell we might 1 day make transisters or what ever we callem out of the stuff that makes ps and es and ns.
transisters billions of times more powerfull all out of a single atom kinda crazy but if we dont kill are selves off i dont c why not.
althou as some have said maybe a entirly idea would be best cause how would u handle some thing that small any how lol????
What was wil not be. What shall wil be!
Quantum physics is hear. Sillicon has outlived its use like mag tape on the A-track.
Yes SSD are here, within 4 years. All data storage wil be quantified by how much, how small and is ther a limit.
nano technology wil nt be seen in movies bt it wil be the AI of our grandkidz households. There wil be new coined terms to identity that atomic technology.
Lets not be redundant. Watch out for paraportation as an endless possibility of information gateway.
Just back to the original topic, what comes after a yottabyte… and where does it end?
Will we be rewriting the dictionary to keep up with technology?
there is something after terabyte but what is that __________ byte