{"id":85802,"date":"2016-06-18T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85802"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:57:13","slug":"this-tiny-disk-will-solve-your-memory-problems-on-your-pc-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-tiny-disk-will-solve-your-memory-problems-on-your-pc-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"This tiny disk will solve your memory problems on your PC forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The successor to the<strong> flash drives <\/strong>we use could be this <strong>quartz minidisk<\/strong> in the picture above. But it&#8217;s not just the shape that makes this little thing special, it&#8217;s its <strong>amazing ability<\/strong> of storing up to <strong>360TB<\/strong> (terabytes) of memory!<\/p>\n<p>Just to put things into perspective, usually we&#8217;d be happy with <strong>2TB<\/strong> of memory, but even that&#8217;s a lot to ask for these days. With this disk, you could store up to <strong>130 times<\/strong> more photos, documents, videos, software and anything else you can think of.<\/p>\n<p>This invention, which for the time being is just an experiment, was created by research scientists at the <strong>University of Southampton (UK)<\/strong>. Besides having an <strong>almost unlimited capacity,<\/strong> due to the material composition of quartz, it can also last up to 14,000 years. This will be something that will outlive us all!<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see a <strong>video<\/strong> (although it&#8217;s not the fastest video) that explains the manufacturing process of the disk. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t see the video? Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rd9GA0W65Ww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The successor to the flash drives we use could be this quartz minidisk in the picture above. But it&#8217;s not just the shape that makes this little thing special, it&#8217;s its amazing ability of storing up to 360TB (terabytes) of memory! Just to put things into perspective, usually we&#8217;d be happy with 2TB of memory, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-tiny-disk-will-solve-your-memory-problems-on-your-pc-forever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This tiny disk will solve your memory problems on your PC forever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":85804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328939,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802\/revisions\/328939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85802"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85802"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85802"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}