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New Optical Disk That Holds 140GB

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the looks-like-vapor-smells-like-vapor dept.

NoCashValue writes "There is an article on Wired News about a new optical disk that can hold up to 140GB of data on a disk the size of a CD ROM." Still pretty vaporouus, but they claim a demo is forthcoming at Comdex.

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  1. THe Horse's Mouth by c_monster · · Score: 5

    The site for Constellation 3D, the company producing the FMD drives, is http://www.c-3d.net/.

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  2. Vaporware Alert! by AFCArchvile · · Score: 4
    Okay people, here's the standard procedure for dealing with a story about vaporware:

    Be impressed with the technological feat.

    Ignore it for the next six months (or in Daikatana's case, three years)

    When the subject gets out of the vaporware stage, become amazed again; even more so than before since it actually exists.

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  3. So... by Millennium · · Score: 5

    What will it be called anyway? OAS-ROM (Obscene Amounts of Storage Read Only Memory)?

    Or maybe MS-ROM, because this'll probably be the only thing big enough to hold a full installation of Windows 2010.
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  4. Romanian Scientists and a 10-TeraByte Optical Disc by Lostman · · Score: 5

    An article HEREInfoworld details a 10-Terabyte Optical Disc. The inventor of the disc says that it may become commercially available in a year (it was stated in oct).

    An important part of this disc is that it is very stable -- instability occurs only after 5,000 years.

  5. A little more info.. by onion2k · · Score: 5

    Theres a reasonable Byte article on these things here. These things sounds like DVD killers, assuming they're practical. They hold more, they're just as speedy, and they could be made at a good price.

    But.. they're 5 inches across still. When are we going to get something smaller? Why not stick 30Gb on a 2 inch disc? That'd be a killer for portables.

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