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An optical disc capable of storing 1 terabyte due out later this year

I have a feeling there are "the powers that be" that will not permit a 1 terabyte disc to hit the market.


.....see 200 mpg gasoline engine
 


<< I have a feeling there are "the powers that be" that will not permit a 1 terabyte disc to hit the market.


.....see 200 mpg gasoline engine >>




what he said... 😱
 
Holly S***....that would be more like a 1000mpg engine that runs on H20...lol ...impossible...but for how long?
 
FD-ROMS have already been in development for a while, and the technology is designed so that data can be stored in various 3D shapes such as cubes. On engineer proposed the use of very small cubes to hold all of a user's data, which could then be loaded into things like kiosks.
 
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Yeah, whatever... I'll believe it when I see it.



<< a data transfer speed of 1 gigabit per second has been achieved by using digital volume holography read/write technology. >>



Anyone know of a HD that can write or read data at 125MB/sec (1gbit)? That's what I thought....

One word: VAPORWARE 😀

Dave
 


<< I have a feeling there are "the powers that be" that will not permit a 1 terabyte disc to hit the market. >>



*cough* *cough* *-company-* *cough*

somebody help me out here-

-Peace
 


<< Anyone know of a HD that can write or read data at 125MB/sec (1gbit)? That's what I thought....

One word: VAPORWARE 😀

Dave >>


Well, the HD doesn't have to write or read at 125MBps the, bus just has to be at least 125MBps. Remember people, back in 1985 when the CD-ROM was invented 650MB was an insnane amount of memory. It's still a lot not, but not quite so ludicrous.
 


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<< Anyone know of a HD that can write or read data at 125MB/sec (1gbit)? That's what I thought....

One word: VAPORWARE 😀

Dave >>


Well, the HD doesn't have to write or read at 125MBps the, bus just has to be at least 125MBps. Remember people, back in 1985 when the CD-ROM was invented 650MB was an insnane amount of memory. It's still a lot not, but not quite so ludicrous. >>



In 1985, there was no threat to the entertainment industry 🙂
 


<< Well, the HD doesn't have to write or read at 125MBps the, bus just has to be at least 125MBps. Remember people, back in 1985 when the CD-ROM was invented 650MB was an insnane amount of memory. It's still a lot not, but not quite so ludicrous. >>



Well, the PCI bus maxes out at 133MB/sec, if you're lucky and have nothing else transferring data... realistically it's more like 100MB.

The CD-ROM was invented in 1985? That's funny, the MPC2 standard was finalized in 1993, before that CDROMs were virtually unknown...

Like I said, I'll believe this tech when I see it.... these companies have been promising super-dense media for a few years now...

Dave
 


<< see 200 mpg gasoline engine >>

The 90MGP carburetor was a myth. Well, 90MPG carburetors are certainly possible, but they can only deliver enough fuel to support small engines like scooters. The old story is that some guy developed a high-efficiency carburetor that mysteriously never saw production. There is a reason it never saw production, because it could never produce enough horsepower to be viable in automobiles. Little scooters and those lightweight prototype vehicles that use motorcycle engines, maybe. But, not your family sedan.

Science can calculate how much energy (in both theoretical and practical terms) that can be extracted from gasoline (or virtually any other substance for that matter), minus the friction of engine parts like transmissions and the weight of the vehicle. It is impossible to produce a 90MPG gasoline burning engine that makes enough power to satisfy the requirements of a car any larger than a Ford Festiva, and it would be a painfully sluggish Festiva at that.

Right now, the most efficient gasoline powerplants produced by European or Japanese companies are harnessing nearly the practical limit for gasoline. There isn't much more to be had (maybe 15%).

But, its a nice story to support some people's 'evil big business' conspiracy fantasies. You know...those 'evil' companies who are busy producing things we want and demand as consumers.

 


<< Well, the PCI bus maxes out at 133MB/sec, if you're lucky and have nothing else transferring data... realistically it's more like 100MB. >>


Well, there are gigabit NICs. Now 32-bit PCI bus can't really take full advantage of a gigabit NIC, but 64-bit (which maxes out 508.6 MBps) can. This leads us to believe a 1 TB disc will be limited to commercial applications, for now at least.



<< The CD-ROM was invented in 1985? That's funny, the MPC2 standard was finalized in 1993, before that CDROMs were virtually unknown... >>


Yellow book was created in 1984, but CD-ROMs didn't catch on in the general public until much later. I'm sure corporations were using it though. This disc will most likely turn out much like CD-ROMs did. It will be used only commercially for awhile because consumers have no need for it nor can their systems handle it. Then as the PC evolves, the need for capacity larger than a DVD-R will arise. Enter the terrabyte disc.
 
Wouldnt it be possible to use this same trechnology to make hard drives? So I guess if you believe this you could say 1 terabyte hard drives are due out later this year?
 


<< Wouldnt it be possible to use this same trechnology to make hard drives? >>


No. The same reason you don't use your CD-RW as a hard drive.
 
Awesome...though DVD-burners are still out of range for most of us as yet...I doubt terabyte storage will be pretty moot for almost everyone
 
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