Tag: TERABYTE

Take a seat, math geeks. According to the BBC News, a scientist has calculated pi, that mathematical constant you might remember from high school, to more digits than ever in the history of time. Fabrice Bellard broke the previous record, which was set last August at 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi, by about 123 billion digits for a grand total of 2.7 trillion digits. What's even more ...

Engineers at North Carolina State University have created a computer chip that holds one terabyte -- or 1,000 gigabytes -- of data and is no larger than a fingernail. For perspective, that means you could store 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text on this tiny chip. According to Computer World, this modern marvel is made possible by a process called selective doping, in which ...

Good news for digital packrats who are always on the move: Asus is gearing up to release a notebook computer with a pair of 500 gigabyte hard drives inside. This one terabyte of hard disk space will be a first for a laptop -- and should give you enough memory to carry around at least the vast majority of your media collection. With enough space for 350 feature length movies or 250,000 four-minute ...