What is Nanostorage?
“Nanostorage” is a rarely used buzzword, like “nanochip” used to describe certain types of memory storage technology that exploit features at the scale of nanometers, or sometimes, the scale of atoms (a silicon atom is about 1/10 nanometer in diameter). The word is used so rarely it is unclear what exactly what is refers to, but most of the technologies discussed in the nanochip article also refer to nanostorage. The object of nanostorage is to make money by offering higher-density storage media with novel applications. For instance, a 100 terabyte storage drive could hold years worth of video (over 100,000 hours). The archetypical example of “nanostorage” would be IBM’s Millipede, which used a MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) based probe which manipulates the charge in tiny capacitors to store data. However, despite announcements that the technology was to be made commercial in late 2007, the flow of publications ceased in 2006, meaning the project was likely shut down and the te
