ok so currently I am headed in a direction of using etching at the nanometer level to make shapes and such. This being solid enough I started looking for an engineer to help with possible materials. The idea is to use current chip making technology to etch on a cheaper material without the electronic aspects existing.

Tonight I just completely outshined even my wonderful level.

I had a brainstorm, why am I limiting it so much?

I can use things allowed in my patent to the fullest now! Rays is the first one. If all rays point back to a common center, their exact (or near enough) locations in the circumference, the distance from the center, even their length, the total number of rays, and more become a possibility.

Empty space can be filled with shapes then! Advanced Combinations inside... or LEGO THEORY! Dear God finding a way for lego theory to work was a nightmare for me, after all if you have a thousand pieces of a potential thousand sizes the possible outcomes is huge, but ultimately Advanced Combinations is more actual space efficient... unless you mix them together! By making angle differences, squares versus diamond angles, you can differentiate the two with ease. You can also allow gaps by just demonstrating where the parts should meet so rays can fit in as well.

Then my mind went on hyper mode. Squiggly lines of various potential lengths (true lines where it never touches another part of itself or anything else), triangles, hexagons, actual circles, 3D represented of all this (except hexagons? Do they stack well in 3D variants?), and other methods covered by my patents including differential sizes of the actual drive (some can be 3x3 inches, some will be longer or shorter, taller or smaller by a measurable size). Oh and real drilled holes (or something like that, maybe a filler material?)

Suddenly the variables leap from terabyte sized drives to potentially even petabyte sized drives. Yes I said petabyte.

It all could be very computationally challenging to read however, as since literally these are shapes, lines, and the likes... it could literally be requiring a dictionary of all possible petabyte worth of outcomes.... That would be  (2^[1000^5])*(1000^5) bits. That would be one hell of a "dictionary" unless a logic routine could be made to read it. But this shall propel me into a level where I should be considered the father of modern backup systems when it all gets worked out.

The main engineering question is what materials can be used as etching sources, how thin can these materials be made and retain enough rigidity, and a logic routine to actually do all the possible variables. The real level of leap needs to also be determined, where the mix of all methods is going to be a pain to try to math out even with my head racing like it is tonight. I suspect the gains might be limited to less than 10 terabytes for a variety of reasons, but the ability to etch in thousands of directions (if equipment can read that well) would definitely make for quite an increase in potential data storage.

Here is hoping I do not get ripped off like I prophesize