> `The researchers say that with improvements to the writing techniques, particularly by taking advantage of parallelism, they can design a system that can fill

> `The researchers say that with improvements to the writing techniques, particularly by taking advantage of parallelism, they can design a system that can fill that same 500 TB in a mere 60 days.` It's possible to get it up to 100 megs per second, which is write speed of a good hard drive. And I suspect it could be scaled up even more. Progress in this field is quite good, 8 years ago they put 300kb on it, now it's 5gb.