Comment by theanonymousone
3 months ago
Since some time ago when "storage is cheap" was trendy, I have been thinking about the question of physical boundaries of data storage, i.e. how many Terabytes can be fit in a square (cubic?) centimetre? Do we know?
That number is directly proportional to the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Very interesting, thanks a lot. If only we had the densities :/
It's hard to get people to pay much more than $200 for a dense drive that will overheat with significant writes. So you can get this up to 1TB, and thumb drives at 2TB or maybe 4TB, but anything with more capacity stops being built keychain friendly even if technically the flash chips could be squeezed closer.