New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

[Logic 0]

Well at least now I would then be finally be able to say my hard drive is going nuclear.

 

[Somatsu]

I would think that anything they can use to make a buck, they will. And anything that will grant convenience, people will buy. Regardless of what it means for the planet or everyone around them. I'm still hanging on to see who can make energy out of garbage or sewage.

 

[Rigs83]

Yeah, that is shady. Even when it is depleted it is still very radioactive.
So i would not want one of those in my house.
If they wanna use them in server-farms to store data be my guest.
But there is already way too much chemical stuff that is bad for your health
in any household and adding depleted uranium would not help it at all.

Read this [http://www.anythingradioactive.com/radsamples.htm] and fear the smoke alarm.

 

[Rigs83]

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[HEADING=1]Everybody!!![/HEADING]

Read this [http://www.anythingradioactive.com/radsamples.htm] and fear the smoke alarm.

 

[yndsu]

Yeah, that is shady. Even when it is depleted it is still very radioactive.
So i would not want one of those in my house.
If they wanna use them in server-farms to store data be my guest.
But there is already way too much chemical stuff that is bad for your health
in any household and adding depleted uranium would not help it at all.

Read this [http://www.anythingradioactive.com/radsamples.htm] and fear the smoke alarm.

I was actually familiar with most of those things in the list.
Didnt know about the smokealarm though. At the same time, not all smokealarms work the same way. Many of them are actually optical not chemical so not all of them have that radioactive isotope in them.

 

[New York Patrick]

Would be fun if it was an actual Atomic hard drive and that suddenly the hard drive break and a new chernobyl will be created.
...
No actually that would be really bad :O

Still, I don't mind a thousandfold increasement of storage space.
Though I already have enough of 1 terabyte. I don't have that full yet :O

Can you imagine it though? You're in a heated game online, you're close to winning the big championship for major money, then your dog runs through horny as heck because your female dogs are all in heat, and he rips past you and hits the cord, toppling everything over. Worst yet? That anvil you use for your weekly blacksmithing class is right above, and just as the Uranium-drive tower hits the ground, it falls down and hits it. Boom, you just wiped your entire team, and street, and block... district... city... god that sucks!

No need to worry, chemical compounds won't ever give you a nuclear explosion because they are exclusively electron exchanges, sharing, etc. (electrons being outside the nucleus)

Yeah, in theese times of terrorist scares just who is going to be comfortable with releasing Uranium to the general public.

And dont think like someone who knows that this cant be purified to pure Uranium, think like someone who believes Fox News.

I'm afraid, tell me who to hate!

Quick! Hate the group of people you can understand the least, and dress up the weirdest! They buy yellow-cake uranium from Chinese child-labor sweatshops and their currency is puppy dog blood!

Wait... they get puppy dog blood? Those basterds are OVERPAID!

 

[SimpleJack]

awesome, a hard drive that doubles as a bomb...

 

[infohippie]

On topic, do we really need that much hard drive space? I mean, a 250 gigger should be good for the average user, 500 seems pretty good for anyone that games or listens to a lot of music, downloads a lot of videos, etc. And if you need more, we have multiple terabytes now. I could see NASA or big businesses using this, but I really don't think the general public has any need of such massive amounts of space.

What, really?
I have nearly four terabytes of HDD in total between my desktop & media server, and less than one terabyte of that is still empty. I'll need to add a few more terabytes soon. 250 gig is tiny.

 

[infohippie]

However, I have to ask: what the hell do you have to fill up more than three terabytes? Three entire terabytes? The only ways I can think of are either really, really heavy torrenting of movies and entire TV shows, ripping your entire movie collection in the best quality imagineable, and/or having a couple hundred games that you don't want to take off.

Well, yeah, I have a lot of games on my desktop machine, about thirty or so installed at any one time. My server is also essentially a homemade DVR, plus I rip all my movies, tv series boxed sets, and music to it so everything's in one central location and I don't have to look around for discs for anything. Video takes up a lot of room. I'll need to add another two terabyte drive to the server pretty soon. I would be glad to be able to buy a 100 terabyte drive. I guess I'm not the average user.

 

[infohippie]

One last little question: I've been looking to rip a few movies to my own meager 500GB drive, but I don't know where to find a good program; what do you use, and if it isn't free or cheap do you know a good free and cheap one?

My server runs on Linux, so I use dvd::rip. I don't think there's a version of that available for Windows.
I used to use Magic DVD Ripper on Windows - it's very good, but it is paid software. WinX DVD Ripper might be what you need, but I haven't used that much so I can't say a lot about it. It's probably a good place to start though.

 

[SilentHunter7]

No need to worry, chemical compounds won't ever give you a nuclear explosion because they are exclusively electron exchanges, sharing, etc. (electrons being outside the nucleus)

Yeah. Plus, U-238 (Depleted Uranium) isn't fissile. It's U-235 that splits when it captures a neutron. To fission U-238 you need really REALLY fast moving neutrons, the kind usually only found in hydrogen bombs and the sun. And even then, the neutrons it gives off when it reacts are too slow to fission more U-238 atoms, so it can't sustain a reaction on its own.

Though I'm sure that won't stop all the concerned mothers from hearing "Uranium" and start mouthing off at Fox News about the 'danger'.

EDIT:
I wonder if there is a way you could use this tech for SRAM chips for ultra-dense storage on pen drives, memory cards, and solid state devices.

 

[Muco5681]

color me crazy but having uranium in a HDD kinda makes me a bit worried what good is it that i can have a HDD with 10000 TB when i get cancer form using it ad to that as well i live in a country were we can have all 4 seasons within the span of a week how will it fare in cold weather and the next day hot as hell weather?

 

[Bobbity]

It's crazy to think of it, but we really are living in the future.

 

[Zantos]

It's interesting, but it's no topological toric processor. One day I shall build one and be king of everything.

 

[TheAmokz]

Its all fun and games until your hard drive goes chernobyl.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

You guys know you can buy uranium, right? Like legally off ebay. And that smoke detectors are already use the radioactive isotop Americium-241? This hardly sounds harmful. Although I've also heard that flawed diamonds are going to be used for quantum computers on this same site, so I'm not sure what to think.

 

[PoweD]

Anybody know what Ford Nucleon is?