Researchers develop 25TB titanium-oxide disc

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  1. doctorie
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    http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/49953-researchers-develop-25tb-titanium-oxide-disc

     
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    Ye yer yer.......

    So where can I buy one.
     
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    bad ass..
     
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    We should rename XoO to Titanium Oxide Clan.
     
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    only if we get to call ourselves <TitOx>
     
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    Isn't the Downside with writing to a crystaline substance, it's a one and done kind of deal. No rewriting, no deleting, it's there forever.
     
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    not sure..but maybe because its able to switch back and forth between states..it could be rewritten?
     
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    possibly but if it costs 100 times less to produce, and you get an huge increase in size it dont really matter, it will cost almost nothing to just use a new one when the old one is full.
     
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    not being able to delete data matters >.>

    if this is true that is
     
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    burn it! in the literal sense.
     
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    I'm fairly sure data would be able to be re-written. Otherwise they probably would never have pushed the development so far if there was such a large flaw.