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Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-is-better dept.

Acid-F1ux writes "Over at news.com they are running a story about how Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD. "

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  1. Re:creating the market by getha · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think he means the market for optical data storage in general... Seeing as Philips was the one inventing the CD, this seems about right...

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  2. Re:Speed? by Galvatron · · Score: 2, Informative

    1x is always defined as the speed of the first drive commercially available. So a 32x cdrom drive is thirty-two times as fast as the first cdrom drives built. Likewise, a 4x DVD-rom drive is four times as fast as the first DVD-rom drives, which is much faster than four times as fast as the first cd rom drives.

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