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- robwistar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22years ago i failed to see the need for 1GB of hard drive space
- RhythmGuru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6New Evil Mind,
I want a big removable disc, because
1) I need offsite storage of multiple GIG of digital pictures, video files, etc, and having the convenience of one or two 200gig removable, rewritable discs that will hold all my information is much better than 6 or 7 DVDs.
2) I don't want to lug around a removable hard drive, unless it's the size of an ipod nano and has no movable/breakable parts (I.E. flash memory!). - spartan8103, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6FINALLY I CAN GET ALL MY PORN ON ONE DISK! YAY!!!!!
- dromeditor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6yeah....24 of them....that wasn't obnoxious
- matt0817, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6and you thought 50GB dics will be expensive...
- JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10But with or without DRM?
With DRM it might as well be a 2MB disc. - EvlD99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Um.. imagine all the loading screens of 200 GB game on a 1 - 2 speed Blu-ray drive. Yeah.. that would be fun.
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@newevilmind: when making data backups, it's good to put it on non-writable media for safeguarding. Also, while CDs are indeed prone to scratching, they don't have the same probability of failure as a harddisk. Personally, I'm looking forward to this sort of storage capacity to make backups for me possible in just 1 or 2 discs.
- digiteyes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5in a few years most software and games wont even fit on a DVD anymore.. 200GB only makes sense in the future.. Remmember when windows actually fit on floppy disks???
- zen.state, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3people who work with video in any capacity will love this
- xodex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeah aimed at like 2010 ~_~
- snapya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wasnt windows 98 54 disks?
- rodbibeau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3replace tape drives....with our servers, the only simgle media that can handle up to 200gb are tapes. and they are a pain. recoveries take a long time because the tape has to be physically respooled and its just a pain...but if i had a single disc that could write faster, be stored longer, was more durable, and i could randomly read from...oh that would be nice.
- MOGua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"confirmed its plan to develop a Blu-ray disc with a storage capacity of 200GB!"
anybody can confirm their "plan" to "develop" anything with any spec.
In fact, I am going to confirm my plan to develop an infinite capacity disc (blackhole on a disc) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ehh... yeah that's bigger than both my hard drives put together. I could digg having wona dem.
- newevilmind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank you for answering my question.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wa sthinking the same thing, but worst part is that I'm not joking, I have 60 and then 250 gigs of nothing but porn and an OS.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I could totally put this to use. I could save off gig's of movie files that I have taking up valuable hard drive space.
I can only hope the media wont cost $50.00 a disk.
Double layer 9 gig DVDs are sill $4.00 each. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey, heres an idea..how about someone cranking out some DVD-/+R's that will actually let me burn at the max speed of my DVD burner..
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Woah nice!
- bobbknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What we need is 500 GB to 1000 GB, so I can have a backup of all my drive storage.
Once, just once, I would like to see the removable storage makers, leap beyond the
hardware drive makers.
I have three copies of the most important things on good DVDs, that I check for readability
every three months.
I would love to have my system images on a single removable disk.
This is my desire, it requires no justification!!
All this is moot when multi-frequency multiplexed phase shifted lasers are used to record
and read data from a crystalline matrix. - PurpleYonder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To ScottNY
> Didn't Bill Gates once say "64K of RAM should be enough for anyone"
> or something along those lines?
Actually he did not. See this: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Wrongly_Attributed - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm not that impressed :)
http://engadget.com/2005/10/21/optware-takes-it-international/
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/10/optware-holographic-versatile-card-30gb-on-a-credit-card/ - CamZak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Forget the DRM...even if you encode a 200GB movie in whatever format...it's still going to be honking big, assuming the average person has a 10 megabit connection...so 1 megabyte per second download...200,000 seconds or 55 hours non stop downloading, it'd be faster to go out and buy it, and it'd be a much higher resolution because the movie isn't compressed. Perfect plan! Encode the movies in ultra uber vente high definition making the movie too large to be shared at it's normal resolution...sure...you can compress it, but look at how fussy people are getting over 'lossless' music compression. I see people on 100 megabit connections with several terabyte raid arrays in the near future...
- mutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this would come in handy for backups... rewritable...
you maybe know that the backup system is the most expensive thing of the whole server... and you barely need it.... but it has to be there in case of...
i think optical media will make it a little bit cheaper... - newevilmind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5what sort of game would require 200BG ???
- EvlD99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless I'm doing my math wrong at 200 mb/s it would take over two hours. However I don't understand where the 200 mb/s comes into play when 1-2 speed (first gen) Blu-Ray drives will be slower then current Gen DVD drives that don't come close to 200 mb/s (25 MB/s).
- kazolar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, picture 25 movies on one disc -- full featured DVDs. Think of the James Bond collection on one Blue Ray DVD. How about All of Freddy/Jason movies on one DVD. For backup purposes only of course.
- matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WTF? How do you figure that? Its' multiple layers.
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The 200 mb/s comes into play when the technology advances and faster drives become available. Seems like a stupid question since you wrote "first gen", indicating you knew these were early drives, bound to improve over time.
- fredinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow i wonder how long it would take to burn one of these disks? 2 days?
-edit-: My bad , I just read that write speeds are 200 mb/s - Garf13ld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Provided that this is backwards compatible with existing (and I use that term loosely) Blue Ray drives I could see a use for it. Imagine a whole series of a TV show, like 24, in 1080P high def all on one disc. That would be handy.
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1200 mb/s (actually 216Mbps) is the possible write speed of the discs, I have no idea how they determine it, but I know they don't just throw it into a drive and see how fast it can manage.
- EvlD99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But then where does the claim of 200 mb/s come from? It is just pure speculation and hype unless they have something to test it on. How is that a stupid question?
- nullchris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Eh, but people already seem to be happy with their DivX quality movies, and the MPAA seems to consider it the largest thorn in their side.
- CapitanAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3> Games barely even fill up a 4gb DVD... though there are a few games that do, but that's still pretty rare.
Gran Turismo 4 uses a dual layer DVD (it's about 6 gigs) - cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Windows 98 did not come on floppies IIRC, if it did it was more like 30.
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It definantly won't be cheap, 200gb is huge. It would be nice to get a rw for it. =)
- rabid_monkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These would be great. I would only have to use 3 discs to back up all the data currently residing on my hard drives.
- Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2for 95% of the digg users...a 200GB disc would be better than an orgasm
but for the other 99% of computer users...a 200GB disc just wouldn't sell that well
oh, and has the 50GB disc even been finalized yet? - jeznav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, but once you put anything on that disc, you can never get it back. :)
- SSCrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems that with a 200GB disc you wouldn't need to compress anything. Entire games and movies could be burned into the disc as raw files.
Good and bad will come of this.
It just seems a little impractical, as of now atleast. maybe in the not to0 distant future. - Blackstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd buy a few 200 gig dvdrs to back up my dvd collection as long as they weren't too expensive.But I'm sure they will be rediculiously pricey to the point where they are totally irrelivent...
- iluvdrbonner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1SHould be roughly the size of a Laser-Disc! Thanks TDK!
WIlly - sudi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In my opinion somebody should come up with a 1GB CD....so much more easer to burn those 706Mb/812Mb .avi movie files. As for the 200GB capacity...other than corporate backups, I can't think of anything else as a possible use. But.....u never know! It's too premature to comment on the use of such a DVD
- ScottNY, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Didn't Bill Gates once say "64K of RAM should be enough for anyone" or something along those lines? At that time, it was true, but that didn't take the future into account. Too many people think of today and not tomorrow.
200 GB of storage is huge by today's standards, but we need people working today on tomorrow's standards or tomorrow won't be worth a damn. Imagine a future where you have 5 Terabyte hard drives standard on Pro desktop machines and you need a backup. What are you going to use? A billion floppies?
Now imagine a 200 GB DVD with the entire Special Edition 6 movie set of the Star Wars films, with 4 or 5 discs worth of bonus material, all on a single Blu-Ray DVD. Imagine the kind of content that can be distributed on a single small form of media.
But first you have to imagine a future where things continue to grow the way they have in the past 30 years of computing, in order to even see the need for a 200 GB DVD. - ek3s, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Games barely even fill up a 4gb DVD... though there are a few games that do, but that's still pretty rare.
- newevilmind, on 10/12/2007, -9/+8I fail to see the need for removable 200GB storage.
Just buy an external hard drive.
If anyone disagrees with this please explain your point of view.
thank you. - kazolar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0ebenonce, can I be your friend.
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