{"id":208718,"date":"2025-03-14T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-inspired-storage-can-store-100s-of-terabytes-of-data-on-a-tiny-crystal-with-plans-to-make-them-into-much-larger-discs"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:13:09","slug":"quantum-inspired-storage-can-store-100s-of-terabytes-of-data-on-a-tiny-crystal-with-plans-to-make-them-into-much-larger-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-inspired-storage-can-store-100s-of-terabytes-of-data-on-a-tiny-crystal-with-plans-to-make-them-into-much-larger-discs","title":{"rendered":"Quantum-inspired storage can store 100s of terabytes of data on a tiny crystal \u2014 with plans to make them into much larger discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-inspired-storage-can-store-100s-of-terabytes-of-data-on-a-tiny-crystal-with-plans-to-make-them-into-much-larger-discs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have devised a way to store and read data from individual atoms embedded in tiny crystals only a few millimeters in size (where 1 mm is 0.04 inches). If scaled up, it could one day lead to ultra-high density storage systems capable of holding petabytes of data on a single disc \u2014 where 1 PB is equivalent to approximately 5,000 4K movies.<\/p>\n<p>Encoding data as 1s and 0s is as old as the entire history of computing, with the only difference being the medium used to store this data \u2014 moving from vacuum tubes flashing on and off, tiny electronic transistors, or even compact discs (CDs), with pits in the surface representing 1s and smoothness indicating 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have devised a way to store and read data from individual atoms embedded in tiny crystals only a few millimeters in size (where 1 mm is 0.04 inches). If scaled up, it could one day lead to ultra-high density storage systems capable of holding petabytes of data on a single disc \u2014 where 1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}