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- P3ST4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56Erasing Disk...
244 hours remaining - awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte.
The bad news? The instant you pull it out of the drive, you lose tens of gigabytes by the tiny little hairthin scratches that instantly appear. - JWallsID6999, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41If Sony can't fit their games on THAT...
- nizzy1115, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Truly amazing. I'm skipping this round of formats hoping 3-D storage to come out soon.
- elck03, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35My god think of all the porn.
- nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32We should have never gotten rid of CADDYS/CADDIES....the only reason we stopped using caddies is because the media companies WANT the disks to get scratched and broken so you have to buy new ones.
You could print on the caddy itself and totally eliminate the need for jewelboxes in most cases. The disc would live inside its caddy and never come out....
All disc's were in caddy's originally when the "engineers" designed the compact disc with it inside a protective shell that works basically like a 3 1/2 floppy disk with a sliding window etc.....its only after marketing came along did we start to see tray loaders, jewel cases etc.
http://www.answers.com/topic/caddy
The technology is OUT THERE to make discs last a LOT LONGER by never having to be touched by humans, ever exposed to other surfaces etc.. but the media companies DONT WANT THEM TO. - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32I can do this now with Winzip and Super Glue.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Add this to the hundreds of other super high capacity storage media options NOT AVAILABLE that we've been hearing about for years!
- geckofiend, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Sure if you like glacier slow access times.
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22They could just do the whole cartridge thing again... you remember those? There was no way to take the disc out of the plastic case, but you popped it into the drive and the drive automagically opened it...
It was too spendy for cd-roms back in the day, but for 1 terabyte of storage, I think it is called for. - matthewaaron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I'm waiting for googlelayer 8-tracks to be invented...
- raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Couple this with that 6gbps wireless connection another article talked about, and we'd all be in heaven.
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20wow. so really, the DVD can beat blu-ray? no need for hd-dvd?
- DarkDays, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Soon, DVD's will be replacing hard drives..
"250GB DVD-RW's x 100, $3.99" - sdevoid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Marked as Inaccurate because of title.
"The use of two lasers creates a very specific image that is sharper than what current techniques can render. Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn’t much thicker. It’s like a typical DVD."
Note:
(A) Two lasers are used with variations in the light wavelenght [requires new optical drive]
(B) The disk is going to be thicker than a DVD, but not by much = new media format.
This isn't a DVD, the title makes it sound like you can download a compression program or something and use it to make a 1TB DVD from current-day discs. - heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13They'd actually have to get a product to market first, and thus far none of these next gen optical storage formats have passed that hurdle.
- Ystig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It's been quite a while since optical had a leg up on magnetic storage. Wildly impressive vapourware optical storage technologies, supposedly just a couple years down the line, have been making headlines ever since the CD-ROM debuted, but not one has managed to materialise. Wired Magazine, and the similarly credulous figures in the tech hype industry, have been pushing holographic storage as "just around the corner" for ten years, and despite this, it remains today exactly where it was ten years ago.
The optical storage of today is a far cry from what CDs were when Sony introduced its first CD-ROM drive, reading 650MB discs on the 486SX and DX of the day, with their ~200MB hard drives. - udha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I can only imagine when the time will come that having to physically place a piece of plastic into a mechanical monster of gears and lasers will seem like horse and buggy times. I want my holo-cube that is read and written to simply by sitting on the desk of my holo-screen. Ok I'm nerding even too much for me here.
- Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Don't tell me. They're using different colored pyramids & circles.
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Vaporware FTW!
- epileet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12very very few of these things ever seem to end up being sold
- Muyoso, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Good thing that HD-DVD is backwards compatible with DVD, so I can use both.
- UCFMark, on 10/23/2007, -1/+10Yeah, it's great to see UCF getting more attention. As a UCF student, I've obviously biased, but I would say that UCF is probably the most underrated school in Florida.
Also, yes, this is much better news than anything about our football team lately.
dugg - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I am reminded of the 24gb or something "paper", didnt that turn out to be false?
It seems like we see a lot of awesome and amazing innovations come to the front page of digg, then 6 months later we find ourselves asking "hey, whatever happened to ____, wasent that going to beat everything else?" - growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12But what about Blue Ray! Oh ya it sucks already
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10well what if this same thing is applied to blu-ray? then youd have...roughly...500terrabytes? (forgive my rudimentary math i failed algebra)
- Academicballa, on 10/23/2007, -2/+10Dugg because I graduated from UCF
- UCFMark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7These products don't boast speeds comparable to hard drives, which will more likely be replaced by flash memory as the price of the latter drops.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9if you're worried about the damaging, just put it in a minidisc/umd style outer shell.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5FTA:
"Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD."
...and then...imagine losing that disc, and it is the only copy. - AndrewWiggin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Belfield’s research team is creating chemical agents that, after being injected into patients, will travel within the bloodstream to find and bind with cancer cells. Using light, doctors would then be able to see if and where a patient has cancer cells. Another agent could be injected that would then destroy the cancer cells when activated by light, without damaging other healthy cells."
And it cures cancer too! You can't go wrong! - nik0526, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Make it DVD-RW and I'll say "hello new hard drive!!"
- teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Come on now...Save the environment, use Winrar.
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The article would have been a reasonable chunk of reporting if not for half of it being descriptions of what data storage was good for. And of course, by DVD, they mean "a disc, just like DVD is a disc."
I especially love this blurb of nonsense: "The light couldn’t distinguish between reading and writing..." My Fundamentals of Clear Writing Prof will turn in her grave, as soon as she gets there.
I can just picture it.
Light: Oh shoot, I don't remember if I'm here to read or write.
Media: Well, you're scorching me to death, so let's call it writing. - toolwerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The question is, what are read and write speeds?
For all we know, zip drives could seem speedy compared to this new media storage format. - intrktevo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Dugg because I go to UCF :)
- mlynch3261, on 10/23/2007, -5/+9Me Too :) Our football team may suck... but damnit we have optics down!
- rudyB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3horray! MORE DRM!
- udha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I read the article, and I read the comment before yours saying much the same thing as you. Yes, it's a stupid headline that I didn't pay any attention to anyway, and after reading the article my guess was confirmed, a disc in similar shape and size to a conventional DVD disc may be able to hold up to 1TB of data. We established that it's not a DVD, get over yourself.
- ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This is really something, but seems hardly practical from a market standpoint right now. But who knows in the future.
- zhulien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is really badly written, on one hand they are saying they have figured out how to write more info onto a DVD, next they are saying it's *like* a DVD - which is it? a DVD or not?
- alternative724, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Optical Drives will never take over for a HDD, the Read Write is too slow, and too easily damaged.
*beat to it*
Likely we will see flash memory hybrids surface first, with HDD being main storage but Flash holding the system state (santa rosa)
eventually we will have full flash HDD, but first in laptops and maybe never in desktops. - udha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5We get it, this isn't a real DVD, but a DVD-shaped object.
- xpsgen2man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21 terabyte = 1024gb not 1000 gb
- dissident, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why would people still want to use these spinning discs in this day in age. I'm rooting for 100 gb flash drives to become the norm.
- ogden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I call *****. This story has appeared every year since I can remember (mid 90's at the very least) and these discs never ever appear.
- gdragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, this is old news. 3D holographic storage has been around since 2001. How quickly we forget the problems the 9000 series computers had with this type of memory.
The malfunctioning hibernation pods, the faulty pod bay doors... What next? 3D storage in an iPod? No thanks!
The damn things aren't even hot swappable. Try removing them while the system is running and your computer will just start playing Daisy.mp3. - SicKn3sS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Soon all TV's will have USB/Firewire slots for flash drives :)
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4remember kids, only scratch it under hip hop supervision
- HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder how this compares to HVD?
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