Yes, you read that right. Half a million. A friggin’ 500,000 songs on your iPod or 3,500 movies. Add to that a battery which can support continuous charge for a week at a single go, and have we just discovered Kryptonite? Not we, guys at IBM did. Sources from Fox News say:-

So-called “racetrack” memory uses the “spin” of an electron to store data and can operate far more quickly than regular hard drives.

Like flash memory — the most advanced type of memory for small devices such as mobile phones — it has no moving parts, meaning that the problems associated with mechanical reliability are dramatically reduced.

But unlike flash, these memories can write data with almost no “wear-out” mechanism, which means a longer life of the data as well as the medium. For the complete story read the report here.

So what would this bring to us. A much larger memory which can hold and handle as much data as we ever can imagine to have. Now, the question is, with data storage pushing the limits, and data compression breaking new grounds, while media is supposedly getting smaller and crispier, the space is getting expanded. How much would we need to finally fill it?

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