Scientists demonstrate storage technology with thousands of storage densities on solid state drives

According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, Alberta University scientists demonstrated a new data storage technology that uses a single hydrogen atom to store 0 and 1, with a storage density thousands of times higher than mechanical hard drives and solid state drives, and hundreds of times more Blu-ray discs. But it may take at least five years for this technology to become practical.

Hydrogen atoms are only 0.5 nanometers in diameter, so the new technology's data storage density can reach an astonishing 1.1 petabits per square inch (138 terabytes). By contrast, the same area Blu-ray disc can only store 12 terabits of data, while traditional machinery And SSDs have a storage density of 1.5 terabits per square inch.

According to Roshan Achal, the lead author of the paper, 45 million songs in the entire iTunes library can be stored on the surface of a coin with a denomination of $0.25.