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One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk
News for nerds writes: "At InterOpto'02 - international optoelectronics exhibition hold in Chiba, Japan - OPTWARE Co.Ltd. made up of ex-Sony engineers, demoed(in Japanese) 1-terabyte super-high speed optical disk system "T-VRD." It uses hologram and stores 1 terabyte data in a 12-cm-CD-size disc, with 100Mbps - 1Gbps transfer rate. Available in 2003 as 19-inch rackmount, 2005 for PC." Update: 07/16 18:33 GMT by T : Sorry, that's centimeters, not inches, which is of course even better ;)
No one needs a terabyte disk. No one needs a 50" monitor. No one needs 10GB RAM. No one needs a 10GHz CPU.
Can I put that in my quotes file, right next to "640K should be enough for anybody"?
If you have a terabyte of storage, you can keep EVERYTHING you ever look at, plus about 3x the space for various indices in case you want to find it again.
Now, if they were talking about a petabyte, you might have a point.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
i wonder how scratch-resistant this is;
i mean -- one little scratch will now render hundreds of megabytes unreadable...
makes no difference to me if in the end half the storage space is dedicated to data-redundancy.
i want those little data-cubes you keep seeing in Sci-Fi movies. those are neater than the disk format.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
When technology exceeds what is needed for current tasks, new tasks will arise. We can't necessarily say what those tasks will be (if we could, we would start up companies to develop those products), but we can see some recent examples. When hard drive capacities shot up in the past few years, first MP3 collections took off, then TiVo and ReplayTV arose.
(I guess I've been trolled. Oh well.)
Hmmm
No future sight there.
What was the quote from the CEO at IBM, something like,
"I believe worldwide there is a market for 25 computers." That was said in the 60's. And it did not sound ridiculous. As for the 50 inch monitor, for my desk NO, but damn would that be nice for a monitoring system on a wall. As for 10 GB RAM welcome to the minimum system specs for Windows (Insert random suffix here) in 10 years.
Computers get more powerful. We force them to do more and more and expect them to be able to do more and more.
Don't ever say technology has hit it's peak we will always advance.
I am 31337 or something.
on one disk!
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Well sorta ...
at 100mbit/sec, we can say about 12.5 mbyte/sec transfer rates. That is really slow now-a-days for a hard drive. 1gbit/sec (125mbyte/sec) is decent, but with UDMA100/UDMA133 standard right now, this technology seems to be behind times in speed when it finally gets released for PCs a year or two from now.
Remember, the hard drive is probably the bottleneck in almost every PC and server, particularly with huge databases. I would really like to see hard drives get faster and faster instead of bigger and bigger.
Morphing Software
I think US broadcast HDTV tops out at ~20 megabits/sec (not megabytes), so 1 Terabyte works out to ~100 hrs of HDTV (in practice much more because most HDTV content will probably be done at a lower bit rate...). Still wanting to put 4 years of your favorite show on to one disk is not an unreasonable thing to want to do (100 hrs is much less than one pro-football season worth of games....)