DVD Sized Optical disc Set to Store 1 Terabyte!!!

[Joe]

Mempile have announced an Optical Disc that is set to hold 1 Terabyte this disc is due for mainstream in 2010 and initially there shall be lower capacity discs based on the pretty unique storage technology.

Full Story HERE

 

[Toxcity]

Nice find Joe!

Really good tech this!

 

[NugentS]

Yeah - but its 2010. By that time every man and his dog will be doing Multi TB on some sort of disc.

Now if they said this year - or perhaps early next year then it may be something special... But no - its 3 years away in the IT industry...

:-(

Sean

 

[jackvdbuk]

this may sounds stupid, but why cant it be released now? same with roadmaps, why cant Intel bring out 32nm now? whats so differnt between now and 2008/10

 

[Nagaru]

this may sounds stupid, but why cant it be released now? same with roadmaps, why cant Intel bring out 32nm now? whats so differnt between now and 2008/10

The difference is 2 years but seriously I think companies do this so that they have a new product to talk about by then. This technology sounds very promising, I hope the disks are in cartridges though.

 

[MikeEnIke]

Yea, sure would suck to lose a TB of data because of some scratches

 

[Nagaru]

Yea, sure would suck to lose a TB of data because of some scratches

Ya and unless it is different from DVDs it should be very easy to do with that kind of data density.

 

[MikeEnIke]

Ya and unless it is different from DVDs it should be very easy to do with that kind of data density.

lol a 1mm scratch is 2 gigs of data

 

[Nagaru]

lol a 1mm scratch is 2 gigs of data

Well I am just thinking here, but I wonder how the multiple layers affects it? Does it make it more scratch tolerant or less?

 

[MikeEnIke]

It probably doesn't do much of either I would think. Then again, I'm not really sure.

 

[FarFarAway]

this may sounds stupid, but why cant it be released now? same with roadmaps, why cant Intel bring out 32nm now? whats so differnt between now and 2008/10

Checking it's all ready for the consumer, testing, bug fixed, getting their fabs ready for mass production, support, compatibility

It all take time

 

[FragTek]

I'm deffo in agreeance on the disc housing... I always loved cart based optical discs, I can't remember the last one I used but I'm pretty sure it was on a Mac back in high school or middle school.