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One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-bunch-of-movies dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Re:point? by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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."
  2. back to caddies? by lingqi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:point? by crow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.)