Colossal Storage Corporation is a research and development company focused on 2D Spintronic and 3D Holographic Optical Nanostorage.Atomic Holographic Optical Data Storage NanoTechnology
The Future of Mass Data Storage Starts Here - The New Frontier
Colossal Storage Corporation is a research and development company focused on 2D Spintronic and 3D Holographic Optical Nanostorage.
Colossal Storage has exclusive licenses to dominant patents, the first patents issued in any field that details the discovery of something totally new and unique.
The US Patent office says Michael E. Thomas is the first person in USPTO history to teach the art of a Non-Contact optical tuning method using photon induced electric field poling of a ferroelectric molecule used as an " Atomic / Photonic / Quantum Switch ", i.e., first-to-invent and first-to-file for a unique device.
Thomas' patents expire in 2020, but he already has many new patentable ferroelectric atomic holographic storage ideas using his patented UV laser atom nanoparticle optical switch function based on UV photon induced electric field poling that will be filed in 2020 extending the patent protection until 2040.
Patents Granted on a Disruptive NanoTechnology for development of Rewritable Ferroelectric Volume Atomic Holographic Optical Storage NanoTechnology.
The Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies". Michael Thomas feels NO storage technology in development for the future or today can come close to the performance and storage capacity of his invention.
Michael Thomas' vision is to replace magnetic hard drives, a market he pioneered. No other optical storage technology in the world other than Colossal Storage will be able to replace magnetic hard drive functionality one for one, THAT'S NONE ! Not Optware Not Inphase Not Aprilisc not Anyone !IBM of late has made a move into spintronic atomic storage with IBM's Parkins new approach, referred to as "racetrack memory". Its interesting to note that pancake motors, electric field generators, etc. all use the concept of creating strong EMF fields by subatomic particles moving through serial wires. Not only will there be increased EMF, heat and energy needs of the device but when the wire develops an open in any wire there goes the memory device. High stray EMF magnetic fields could also pose a health problem to users as well as other electronics in the circuit. How does IBM propose handling the EMF crosstalk between wires possibly effecting neighboring wires data ? These and many other question need to be answered before this technology can be said to be reliable holding a customers data.
The World is now really connected. Users of electronics, mobile and desktop computing are no longer now just users of digital information, but creators of digital information. The capacity required for recording movies, TV, and digital video footage, will increase tremendously. For example, over 200 billion digital photos will be taken this year alone.
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Not only enterprise content, but personally created content will proliferate. Moving forward, we will have video blogs, video created by billions of people worldwide. This content needs to be shaped, edited and stored. The translation is storage demand.
What some of the over World's Top Post Doctoral PhD's Scientist at MIT, GIT, Purdue, Harvard, Yale, Calpoly, UF, UT, UCB, UCLA, USC, UCSD, NYU, Los Alamos, ORNL, LLNL, Sandia Labs, JPL, Fermi, CERN, Max Plank Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, IIT, Osaka University, Chinese Academy of Science, and many other colleges and universities are saying about their desire to be part of the Colossal Storage Research Team .
Ferroelectric densities of .2 to .5 Petabits = 200 to 500 Terabits sq. in. / 40 Petabits = 40,000 to 100 Petabits = 100,000 Terabits cu.cm. or 200,000 to 500,000 Gigabits sq.in. / 40,000,000 to 100,000,000 Gigabits cu.cm. with symmetrical read / write times of < 10 picoseconds for 100 year non-volatile storage having infinite rewrites.
Normally the 1.3 to 5 nanometer molecule can switch at < 10 picoseconds while maintaining non-destructive readout of ferroelectric bistable properties at a 5 nanometer cell size.
This is not the end by any means as Tohoku says their target is 4 Petabits a sq. in or 375,000 Terabits cu. cm. using a .4 nanometer cell size.Ferromagnetic - Magnetic disk drive have the next highest density at 50 Terabits sq. cm., The Super Paramagnetic Limit. This density is a particle size prediction ( 10 nm ) where the real operational density is more around 1 Terabits sq. cm. as 50 nanoparticles are needed per 1 data bit cell ( ~ 500 nm ). Perpendicular orientation recording will only delay this dead end a few years at most.
Colossal Storage will not use complex wiring schemes that have impedance, heat, and reliability problems but instead will exceed any storage devices proposed and would enable a storage density of more than 100,000 terabits per cubic centimeter. A ferroelectric storage drive device the size of an iPod nano or 3.5 inch drive could hold enough MP3 music to play for 300,000 years without repeating a song or enough DVD quality video to play movies for 10,000 years without repetition.
Ferroelectrics space age material that has been shown to have robust
Nuclear / EMF / Cosmic radiation protection exceeding all other materials used in data storage and display technology. 
The U.S. Patents, # 6,028,835 2/22/00 and # 6,046,973 4/4/00 protect a new and unique method for a non-contact semiconductor integrated read/write head. The read/write head will use UV photons from an Ultra-Violet/Deep Blue Laser transmitted through a hemispherical objective lens for storing and retrieving data to a Infinite Rewritable Ferroelectric Atomic Holographic Optical Disk.
The UV laser diodes and electric field transducers of the Integrated Read/Write Head can be used in any combination or sequence to control the molecules which include UV/blue photon frequencies and quantum energy level as well as Nano/Micro electro static field strength (voltage) and switching field densities (frequency).
Head to Gap spacing will be from 1 to 15 millimeters providing a much higher reliability factor than Collinear or SIL type heads with their fragile head spacing and susceptibility to contaminants from the media and enclosure.See also 3 Page White Paper .Fixed head drive version will have 000 ms seek and 0 ms latency times with Terabits/sec tranfer rates possible.
Al Shugart an industry ICON, founder of Seagate, the world's largest Disk Drive Company and the Vice-Chairman of Colossal Storage Corporation says," I don't understand all of Michael's technology but I know this is the way to go for the storage industry."
On Tuesday, December 12th, Al Shugart died of a heart failure. He inspired us to go for our dreams and gave us strength by believing in our technology. We will miss him dearly and we will once more read his book, smiling, recognizing, wondering, and nodding our heads in agreement.
SanDisk Flashcard Solid State Drives will Cost $ 90.00 a Gigabyte versus the Hard Drive < $ .50 a Gigabyte ( $ 500 drive ) versus Blu-Ray / HD-DVD $ .012 a Gigabyte ( $7,500 drive ) versus InPhase / Optware Worm Holographic $ .50 a Gigabyte ( $ 15,000 drive ) versus Atomic Holographic Drive < $ 0.0004 a Gigabyte ($ 750 drive ).
Atomic Holographic Optical Storage Nanotechnology will dramatically improve applications like 6,840 raw uncompressed high quality Video/TV hours, or 2,100,000 chest x-rays, or nearly 10,000,000 high-resolution images, or 30,000 four-drawer filing cabinets of documents, or 20,000 DVD'S Worm's, or 4,000 BLU-Ray Worm disk's, or 100 - 100 gigabyte disk drives or 50 InPhase Holographic Disks on ONE 10 Terabyte 3.5 in. removable disc.
Why Rewritable Atomic Holographic Optical Storage Nanotechnology ?
- It will have highest NLO analog / digital / optical capacity available
- will have lowest cost per gigabyte
- will have highest data bit density of any storage device
- will have lowest power requirement per gigabyte
- will have longest archive shelf life of any data storage media,
- will have widest environmental conditions and tolerances
- will be only technology that scales from nano to macro solutions
- will have most reliable removable read / write media available
- will be a non-contact recording nanotechnology for increased reliability
- will have highest bandwidth data transfer potential
- will be direct replacement for hard disk drives
- will NOT have storage media destroyed by Infrared, Visible, or Ultraviolet Light
- will NOT be effected by extreme high energy EMF or Cosmic Rays
i.e. Solar Flares and Solar Winds for Moon / Mars Exploration
- will be nuclear/cosmic radiation hardened capable
One 10 Terabyte to 10 Petabyte and beyond 3.5 in FEdisk would be EQUAL 1,000 to 100,000 Times the Storage Capacity of Blu-Ray, Disk Drives, or Tape Drive.
That's 1,000 times any State of the Art hard disk technology with 100 Gigabytes on one disk. Hard drive technology will never exceed 500 Gigabytes on a disk.
Atomic Holographic optical image data storage bandwidth is 400,000 times faster than binary bit text processing bandwidths used in today's storage technology.
Even proposed Nanomagnetics storage using rings and transistors cannot get the single bit cell small enough when compared to ferroelectric single bit size, i.e., nanomagnetics 283,500 cubic nanometers and ferroelectrics < 25 cu. nanometers for 1 data bit. That breaks down to 11,340 times more ferroelectric data bit cells in 2D per 1 nanomagnetic data bit cell and we can't even compare 3D volume ferroelectrics to nanomagnetics due to the 3D physical limitation of nanomagnetics.
It should also be noted that one of the main causes of California's last power shortage/outage problems were placed at the feet of the large data storage farms using millions of disk drives to run the internet. Imagine the oil, pollution, equipment, and labor cost savings by using just ONE Colossal disk drive. President Bush says energy and oil dependency cost have to come down in America and alternative sources for saving energy must be identified.
One Multi-Terabyte Colossal Drive could save more than 900,000 watts hour by replacing a thousand or more hard drives each requiring on average 3 amps of continuous power usage. That breaks down into 3A * 5V/12v or 15 watts per minute * 60 = 900 watts an hour. World wide approximate power usage is 900 watts/hour * 500,000,000 drives = 450 x 10^9 watts hour (50,000,000 new drive every year). Power and energy conservation will play an important role in the 21st century as energy dollar resources become critical black outs , brown outs .
NO need for expensive compression software like MPEG and others, NO need to backup data unless you feel you have too. Works just like a hard drive except with a MILLION times the capacity and data transfer rates.
Nano-Storage Market to Reach $65.7 billion by 2011 according to NanoMarkets Report which quantifies the disruptive power of nanotechnology.
In 2003 the model was 2 Exabytes (2 billion gigabytes) of NEW data in 2001 and 5 Exabytes (5 billion gigabytes) of new data in 2002 was generated. NEW DATA is increasing every year world wide growing at 30% every 4 months.
DATA EXPLOSION ! in 2006 5 Exabytes in 2003 of new data use to be the model but last year there was 160 Exabytes of new data. The first part 2010 is expected to see 600 Exabytes of new data with end of 2010 about 1 Zettabyte of new data and growing ! Present day data storage technology is lagging behind and it will start to impact internet performance.
Medical Researchers and others have been trashing years of pure raw data on biological, viral, bacterial, new drugs, cancer research data, etc.
TODAY'S storage technology can't handle researcher's long term data storage needs. This is a tragedy for Mankind !
Storage gets serious in 2005
Microsoft's new 64 bit operating system will need a minimum of 1 gigabyte and as much as 500 gigabytes of storage. Normally you would want to have a minimum of 200 times this on your rotating storage platform. This would imply a need for 50 terabytes of storage for the new 64 bit server software. There are NO terabyte rotating storage drives on the world market.
Hard drives aren't keeping up with today's data needs. Today's large 300 and 400 gigabyte (GB) hard drives are easily filled to capacity by digital photos, increasingly large audio files, and video. Some computer users attempt to cope with the problem by stuffing multiple hard drives into their PCs. But there is a limit to the number of hard drives a PC can operate and many are finding the 4.7 gigabyte DVD is just not large enough. Present day storage technology CAN NOT keep pace with the data storage demands of the world's appetite !300 Million Hard Drives and 235 Million Optical drives were produced in 2004.
Most all Blu-Ray / DVD Phase Change media uses ferroelectric Chalcogenide Ge2Sb2Te5 material. The IC DVD/CD/MO/Blu-Ray Phase Change companies didn't know the media they were using was ferroelectric but only knew if they heated it up and cooled it down something happened to the surface of the chalcogenide material. Colossal Storage will be the only drive in the world that will be able to read any Chalcogenide phase change disk with the capability of overwriting or infinitely rewriting data to any phase change disk by changing the internal molecular structure of the polarized atom dipole geometry without heat and cooling. Thomas found that Ultraviolet light was not only important to create free conduction band electrons but that UV is the " Fountain of Youth " for ferroelectric molecules. That the use of UV in ferroelectric applications prevents fatigue and pinning of the Atomic Molecular Dipole.
Researchers continue to Verify and Prove Colossal Storage Patented nanoTechnology Argonne National Labs, Sandia Labs , University of Ottawa and the Steacie Institute of Molecular Sciences , University of Bonn, Germany, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 083601 , Francesco De Martini of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and INFM in Italy , CERN and others , NOE - Europe, University of Toronto, University of Maryland, IBM , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Chalmers/Göteborg University .
3 of America's Top Universities and Scientist are working on completion of " Proof of Concept " for the Atomic Holographic Optical Storage Drive.
Holographic Drives are beginning materials research and prototype development and will not be on the market until 2009.
3D Holographic Optical Disk Drive Storage Published Abstract/White Papers and Posters.
FeDrive and FeHead are the trade names for the integrated semiconductor ferroelectric device concepts of Colossal Storage, Pocomoke City, Md.
Michael E. Thomas wants to License or Sell his U.S. Patents, # 6,028,835 2/22/00 and # 6,046,973 4/4/00 , and USPTO .
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