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holy cow!

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yeah, well it looks like pretty soon you will be able to store even 2 movies on a single disc... well, a couple of movies, along with everything else you ever wanted...!
I wonder how long it'll take to burn a 1.6TB disc, and how annoying it'll be if light goes out when nero reaches 99%
oh yeah
 
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: TallBill
The terrabyte is not impressive anymore.
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It is for removable storage! 🙂
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In five years?

Earlier this month, Turner Entertainment's vice president of broadcast technology, Ron Tarasoff, said his company is planning to sell holographic disks that will retail for $100 and which, in five years, will have a capacity of 1.6 terabytes each.
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It takes four 400GB harddrives to hit 1.6TB right now, and a LOT of DVDs (even dual layer). Having something roughly the size of a Zip disk (I'm betting) hold almost 1.6TB is just disgusting. And 160mbps throughput? Why bother having harddrives anymore, just boot off a holodisc/k and you're all set, a small bunch will hold more data than ever even existed in the world just a few years back.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
It takes four 400GB harddrives to hit 1.6TB right now, and a LOT of DVDs (even dual layer). Having something roughly the size of a Zip disk (I'm betting) hold almost 1.6TB is just disgusting. And 160mbps throughput? Why bother having harddrives anymore, just boot off a holodisc/k and you're all set, a small bunch will hold more data than ever even existed in the world just a few years back.
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In 5 years, hard drives wont be the same. I'll predict that now.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
It takes four 400GB harddrives to hit 1.6TB right now, and a LOT of DVDs (even dual layer). Having something roughly the size of a Zip disk (I'm betting) hold almost 1.6TB is just disgusting. And 160mbps throughput? Why bother having harddrives anymore, just boot off a holodisc/k and you're all set, a small bunch will hold more data than ever even existed in the world just a few years back.
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Probably because of limited number of read write cycles. Optical devices usually use photosensitive chemicals that cannot sustain the same number of read-write cycles as magnetic media.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Sphexi
It takes four 400GB harddrives to hit 1.6TB right now, and a LOT of DVDs (even dual layer). Having something roughly the size of a Zip disk (I'm betting) hold almost 1.6TB is just disgusting. And 160mbps throughput? Why bother having harddrives anymore, just boot off a holodisc/k and you're all set, a small bunch will hold more data than ever even existed in the world just a few years back.
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In 5 years, hard drives wont be the same. I'll predict that now.
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omg aunt cleo!!!!!!111!!1111
 
Eh, no big deal really, although one disk holding that much data is pretty cool. However, how likely are these disks to fail? Hard drives are known to fail eventually due to mechanical malfunction (among other things). What problems will these things have?
 
removable hd is cool. 300gb on a single disc vs 64 dvd 4.7gb is going to be wonderful in 06. I remember the days of 20mb,30mb,40mb,50mb removable hd why has it taken this long to make a comeback?


 
Originally posted by: TallBill
In 5 years, hard drives wont be the same. I'll predict that now.
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yeah, I think it'll go in the direction of i-RAM, which should make a very fast HD.
I suggest that in the future HDD (in whatever form they may come) will only be used to boot the OS - thus huge HDD's will not be needed, and the rest will be done by using removable storage.
 
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