1000 fold optical storage increase in the near future?

[faxon]

http://www.techspot.com/news/39105-25tb-titanium-oxide-super-discs-in-the-works.html

guy just showed me this in class. thought it was interesting :awe:

 

[Idontcare]

hooray...it's another one of those types of hype articles. Lemme guess what the headlines will be next year: "1000 fold optical storage increase, coming soon, only 3-5 yrs away from commercial release, seriously, for reals this time"

 

[tcsenter]

Real Soon Now (tm)

 

[ZXT]

Imagine the amount of pron you can burn in that disc

Seriously I don't think its happening in 5 years.

 

[Voo]

hooray...it's another one of those types of hype articles. Lemme guess what the headlines will be next year: "1000 fold optical storage increase, coming soon, only 3-5 yrs away from commercial release, seriously, for reals this time"

Yeah that always reminds me of http://xkcd.com/678/ - sorry for posting - it seems to work every time.
And 3-5years later nobody remembers the article anyhow, so why should they care..

 

[Blain]

hooray...it's another one of those types of hype articles.

We just can't get enough of them.

 

[Idontcare]

Yeah that always reminds me of http://xkcd.com/678/ - sorry for posting - it seems to work every time.
And 3-5years later nobody remembers the article anyhow, so why should they care..

That's just awesome, hits so close to home, never seen it before, I've got a few people this needs to be forwarded to!

 

[corkyg]

Ho hum The whole optical process is dog slow compared to faster, bigger, and cheaper external HDDs.

 

[faxon]

That's just awesome, hits so close to home, never seen it before, I've got a few people this needs to be forwarded to!

yea XKCD is always great. that one made me laugh pretty hard actually .

 

[taltamir]

sweet... a LAB TEST!
Now if EVERYTHING works out PERFECTLY we will have a product in as little as 10 years!

 

[StinkyPinky]

And one scratch and you've lost 25TB of data.

Probably take a day to burn as well.

 

[taltamir]

And one scratch and you've lost 25TB of data.

Probably take a day to burn as well.

eh... just dedicate 10% of it to ECC