Does storage technology have an upper limit? askscience

It used to be that a hard drive the size of a refrigerator had storage capacity measured in megabytes. These days, you can get a usb flash drive with a terabyte in storage. Will this upward trend continue? Will there be things like petabyte hard drives in the not-too-distant future? Or is there an upper limit to increases in storage capacity?

Submitted December 12, 2016 at 06:56AM by CaptainVonDanDan http://ift.tt/2gEjrxP askscience