A couple of years from now, admittedly. I can wait.
How to fit 1TB of data on one CD-sized disc – News
Blu-ray and HD DVD have pushed the limits of optical storage further than anyone thought possible. But a new technology has emerged which makes Blu-ray’s 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it’s able to fit an incredible 1TB of data onto one “TeraDisc” which is the same size as CDs and DVDs. That’s 20 times the capacity of a maxed-out dual-layer Blu-ray disc.
The incredible capacity achieved using this new technology is made possible by employing 200 5GB layers, each one only five microns apart. The discs are completely transparent to the red lasers which are used in the associated recorder.
Prototypes have already been made to store up to 800GB of data, and Mempile says it will crack the 1TB barrier before moving on to build 5TB blue laser disks.
Dr Beth Erez, Mempile’s Chief Marketing Officer says that the first 1TB disks have a lifespan of 50 years and could be on the shelves in two to three years.
On a 1TB disc, you could store:
* 212 DVD-quality movies
* 250,000 MP3 files
* 1,000,000 large Word documents
Hahaha. Yang-keez. Suck-erz.
By the time 1Tb optical is ready for the consumer market, spinning disks, optical or otherwise, will be legacy tech.
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the next real big breakthrough will be the holographic write and read
disc that will hold terabytes of data. no need to reduce any information.
plus it will store 3 dimension info to be viewed without special glasses. glass cable will stream down HQ/HD on demand programs. maybe discs will not be needed at all!
I predict! A many-layered card – holographic – read by a electonically-steered (i.e. nonmechanical) laser or laser array… No moving parts, total silence, ultimate reliability, scalability and compatibility with future improvements trivial…
I’m thinking maybe 2 years before someone (IBM? Hitachi? TI?) pops out with something of the sort.
#4 and #5 – Redundent backup of all that data to two disks and keep one as a local archive and one as off-site backup! Depending on the cost of the media there’s no reason why you couldn’t make 3, 4 or 5 copies and have cheap redunent redundent redundent redudundent redundent backup data.
I’m just wondering why the push for “disk” type technology at all. Haven’t we gotten to the point where solid state should start making a comeback again? I’d rather have a 1 TB SNES cartridge that requires no moving parts to access the data than 1 TB *VD…