New Data Storage Methods White Paper

Banks, Governments, and other Institutions use massive amounts of data of which providing backups for is costly and subject their their own losses. Replacements for the drives must be constantly purchased and in the case of Banks there is a constant need for longterm storage of every transaction ever completed and balances.

The methods herein will demonstrate that prices less than half of current prices can be obtained "off the shelf" in hardware terms and with minor software needs and that in less than seven years manufactoring prices of $1 a terabyte could be achieved.

One problem we suffer with is information bloat, where more and more data is being saved in backps. Where a floppy disc used to suffice we now have hard drives in multiple terabyte sizes and we have servers needing exobytes worth of data backups. Another in the latent support or storage needs of such data. Another consideration is the express weakness of such storage media to an EMP strike.

Hard drives remains as an about $30 billion a year revenue stream. This does not include Tape Drives used in some backup facilities. This revenue has dipped in recent years due to the Tablet Revolution and the failure of Windows 8 but is due to rise as more people start seeking new computers and as companies increase their total memory capacity.

Two things commonly affect the industry as for their total revenue and profitability and these are Demand and Supply

1) Demand
The desired amount of memory per a computer regularly goes up and this represents the demand portion.

2) Supply
Supply in this case is not total memory units but the storage per a unit. Increases in efficiency continue to make it possible to store more total data in a standard drive size.

The Invention
The Patent Pending technology is actually a series of new concepts and ideas. From the elementary upgrade to major break throughs in storage space and cost savings.

At this moment I estimate using off the shelf technology an average of $20 a terabyte in costs can be achieved. That is starting immeadiately.
In a year this cost can be reduced to under $15 a terabyte and in 5-7 years it may be possible to use my technology for $1 a terabyte OR LOWER!

The current off the shelf effort involves Silicon Wafers with a 50nm cut. Using shapes, lines, tunneling effects (IR Lasers), holes, and 2 dimensional representations of 3 dimensional structures we can achieve this near immeadiately.

A 3.5 inch wafer should be able to hold just over a terabyte worth of data to several terabytes worth mattering on complexity. A wafer of this size costs approximately $7.50 apiece. Storage costs, etching device costs, reading device costs, clean room costs are factors. However it should be possible with large data packages to do via contract with an existing corporation dedicated to etching chips. 50nm is also fairly aged and is a very low error rate cutting size.

Then there is enhancing current technologies and the future of 3D Printed Memory Units.

It is possible to enhance ANY existing memory with the Patent. In some there are multiple ways to enhance their technology. There would need to be software and/or hardware upgrades with many of these but the advantages are strong.

Take the IBM Race Track Memory which uses Spintronics (Both being registered Trademarked Names). I can enhance their memory with a form of permanent memory in lieu of some of the software memory. This can be achieved by shortening some of the memory strands and using a simple check system to find the number of allotted units.

In most units a simple "hole" or "null spot" can enhance the system by 10-15% at a cost of 2-5% of the original memory. However or many units it may be possible to even DOUBLE the storage capacity for 5% or less of the original memory type.

It should even be possible (testing yet concluded) to use portions of the Patent Pending Technologies to increase the speed of the internet and increase the data density of drives via software solution!

But we did mention 3D Printed memory and that is the future. Currently we are not quite there yet with 10x10x50ùm 1 million color 3D Printing. But we are getting closer! When size gets to 5x5ùm in true 23 bit or better colors we will see memory which can be read by a spectrometer array at signficant speeds. Now these 3D printed memory devices would be printed like a deck of two sided cards. A 3 inch by 1 inch by 2/3 inch "deck" would hold 2.9 terabytes of data and would consist of 52 "cards". Plastic, when in bulk, becomes very cheap. It is my estimate this "deck" would cost less than $2 to manufacture and it would be extremely durable.

Yes those numbers are strong, 2.9 terabytes for less than $2. Some clean room costs, the printer, and such will apply, but the size of these also allows a 10x10 storage space to hold several thousand of these "decks".

There is a potential need for massive amounts more of permanently stored data. Police cameras per officer if left on all day per shift, if stored... if this is 2gb an hour then this represents 780,000 officers for 40 hours a week and 52 weeks a year = 3,244,800,000 gigbytes of needed, or in other terms 3,094 petabytes of data annually. If security starts using it (3 security for every oficer but let us presume only a like number adapt) this could double. If the profit margin is $10 a terabyte this would represent approxmately $63,000,000 in profits annually just from police and security cameras.

The NSA has a facility in Utah said to be a zettabyte (source NPR whic says 5zb) or more. I suggest half could be data backups as the NSA undoubtable does not like losing data. This means at a profit of $1 a tb for the 3D printed version it would be worth 500 million to 2.5 billion dollars of storage.

The NSA is hardly the only contender needing large sums of data backed up it is just the biggest. Annual needs might easily reach $2 to $3 billion without including the major jump being done by the NSA..

There is of course downsides to some of the methods. Reading a wafer with current error checking equipment can be time consuming. Even at 50ùm the risk of errors happening is not impossible so existing error check systems will need to be adapted to the wafers. The clean room costs, the storage container costs will be there.

The plastic drives will need advanced imaging equipment to correctly locate each location in turn and the color associated with each location. Work on such a scanner remains an issue to which needs work before being acceptable to work.

Work done to make holes or empty spots might require new style readers where the readers spin and not the disc. Actual 3 dimensional structures may have slow read times based upon the needs of the readers.

None of these however are issues of theory but of engineering. Every technology already exists, many with expired patents, and each issue can examined on their own without undo difficulty.

I close with mention that while I could contract development out on my own, testing, production, and marketing, I prefer to sell the Pending Patent or lease/license it out worst case. With a market profit potentially in the billions and with potential to be of interest to existing data storage companies the patent has real value.