Japan Develops 2-Inch Diamond Wafers That Can Store a Billion Blu-ray Discs’ Worth of Data

[Tsing]

The future of high-density data storage may come in the form of smallish wafers. Adamant Namiki Precision Jewelery, a company based in Japan, has shared a press release confirming its success in developing technology for mass producing diamond wafers that measure only 2-inches but are capable of storing an enormous amount of data.

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[Brian_B]

I would think you'd want at least 10" before you make headlines.

 

[Elf_Boy]

Is this talking Zattabyte levels of storage?

Is it going to take a year to format? What are read/write speeds - guess till have 5-10+ years of development ahead of it - or will it go the way of bubble memory?

 

[Riccochet]

So, how many blu-ray's is that new drive ya got?

Said no one ever....

Just bought a new boat. It hold 74,000 thimbles of fuel.