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上海日报:Local scientists shrink big data storage
Localscientistshavefoundanewapproachtohigh-capacitydatastorage,makingaportablebigdatacenterpossible.Theamountofdataweproduceeverydayisbeyondimaginationinthiseraofinformationexplosion.Estimatesshowthatglobaldatawillamountupto175ZB(Zettabytes;1ZBequals1billionTerabytesor1trillionGigabytes)in2025.If175ZBwerestoredonBlu-raydisks,thediskstackwouldbe23timesthedistancetotheMoon.ScientistsfromtheUniversityofShanghaiforScienceandTechnology(USST)haveofferedanewapproachfornext-generationnanoscaleopticaldat