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> Dr Otte reports read speeds of 1-2 minutes per block. He reckons he could boost those speeds drastically, to about a megabit per second. That would be a big i
by smellf 10y ago
> Dr Otte reports read speeds of 1-2 minutes per block. He reckons he could boost those speeds drastically, to about a megabit per second. That would be a big improvement, but still thousands of times slower than modern hard drives.
Try tens of times slower. There would absolutely be applications for nonvolatile memory that reads at 1 Mbps but has this kind of insane memory density. For most applications you'd probably have to make the technology stable at room temperature though.
- neckro23 10y agoThousands is correct. A magnetic hard disk has a bandwidth of well over 1 Gbps. Long-term stability (and this would only be any good for long-term storage, at that rate!) is a pretty tall order. Even current storage methods can't really manage it.
- smellf 10y agoWell, I did mix up my units - I should have said hundreds. Megabits is a weird unit to use for hard drives. But read speeds on a spinning HDD are typically going to be between 50-100MBps, so 400-800 Mbps.
- skykooler 10y agoEspecially if you could make the read heads small enough that you could read from several atomic lattices in parallel.