Microsoft Founder Bill Gates once said (I admit it is so clichéd to quote this), “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – Even a 64 Gigabyte Hard-Disk is now looked down upon.
30 years since that statement was made, we are now looking at Hard-Disks that are 30 Terabyte in size (that is 30,000 GBs) using Nano-technology.
R. Shivaraman from Chennai holds an Indian patent jointly with C. Gopalakrishnan (also awaiting U.S Patent), for an innovation that enables a hard drive to hold a large amount of data – 30 terabyte (TB) – as against the current storage capacity of average 500 gigabyte. [source]
Currently the technology for ultra-high data storage is already available and but what makes Shivaraman’s technology so unique is the time it takes to fabricate such ultra-high storage drives – Using his technology one can churn out 8 such hard-drives in a minute ! – Take That…
Here comes the sad part – R. Shivaraman is reportedly leaving Indian shores and joining U.S based Hard Disk manufacturer Seagate Technologies. They have reportedly offered him a salary of 1.4 crores !
To be honest it wouldn’t be prudent for me make a comment as I don’t know any further details – however, I can say this – India should do everything to nurture and retain such talent & innovations !
What are your thoughts?
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Probably Shivaraman did the clever thing by taking the offer. Nowadays technology is so fast, gadgets are getting smaller in size, bigger in capacity by the day.
In 2006 I bought an external Hard disc of 80 GB cap and thought it will be enought for my next 10 yrs. In 2008 I bought another EHD of 250 GB. Now my friend bought a 1TB EHD.
If Mr. Shivaraman planned to start his own business, by the time he got all licences / permits, some one might have come up with a 100 TB Hard drive and Shivaraman might have lost advantage.
If he waited for any one with cash to start a unit, by the time he got such partnership, start production, 30 TB would have been breeched very fast.
In US there is existing set up which can take advantage of his innovation.
He got the attention of that US company with his invention and in right time took the attractive offer.
Atleast he can keep earning salary for years to come (though the innovation is lost to US company)