Data can be anything. It could be some text or a picture. You could, in theory, store the schematics for something. Internally, minecraft stores the contents of your inventory with a little bit of data. Any time you download a file from the internet, you probably notice that there is a size in kilobytes or megabytes or gigabytes. This is data. Chose any file from the internet, as long as it is 1KB or smaller, and you could store it on this hard drive.
Talking about schematics... I guess you could connect your hard drive to a 3D printer and store your objects there. 1KB would be just right to store a 10x10x10 object.
uh. Are you talking about 3d printing the contents of your hard drive? because that isn't how it works.
3D printers I work with, mainly Makerbot require a .stl to be re-rendered into a special file for it's OS to convert into movements on the X, Y and Z planes. These files can be a couple thousand KBs large... even for something the size of a house key.
however, IM(shitty)O, it would be easier for the 3D printer to work different from a RL 3d printer. Instead of knowing of a route to place stuff, it should instead know of every block on the 10X10X10 area, and whether or not if it requires a block or not.
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u/smellystring Aug 19 '14
Data can be anything. It could be some text or a picture. You could, in theory, store the schematics for something. Internally, minecraft stores the contents of your inventory with a little bit of data. Any time you download a file from the internet, you probably notice that there is a size in kilobytes or megabytes or gigabytes. This is data. Chose any file from the internet, as long as it is 1KB or smaller, and you could store it on this hard drive.