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100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage
ignipotentis writes "According to PhysOrg we are close to being able to record our entire lives on a single 3.5" optical disc. This article talks about using ultraviolet light since focused laser beam is smaller in diameter than other frequencies of light. The expected cost per drive upon production is $570-$750 with discs costing $45."
Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows will have a base install size of 99 terabytes
Don't forget the $1/megabyte tax that the RIAA will undoubtedly impose. The price becomes a little prohibitive.
we are close to being able to record our entire lives on a single 3.5" optical disc ...
Obviously, we now need a technology to either spawn or backup our lives.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
Microsoft has announced they are working on a totally different standard for these disks (even though a standard hasn't been officially announced) and will incorporate it into Longhorn, causing it's production to be moved back again.
Seriously though, what is the rot rate going to be on these things. For the average user, the media will probably become unstable before the disc is filled.
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Hey, that disc is 1/46th the size of a Volkswagen Bug!
Do you like German cars?
It's ultraviolet. You're not going to be able to see it. Trust me.
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The 100 Terabyte iPod! Now available for the 300%-profit-margin price of $99999!
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world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
meeting our needs for the next millenium, it says. Well, at least it's realistic. I'd even be willing to say that this technology may be viable in a mere nine-hundred years!
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"Welcome to the 3D Atomic NanoTechnology of the 3rd Millennium! Atomic Holographic Optical Data Storage NanoTechnology! Patents Granted on Revolutionary NanoTechnology for development of Rewritable Ferroelectric Volume Atomic Holographic Optical Storage NanoTechnology! ...will NOT be effected by extreme high energy EMF or Cosmic Rays i.e. Solar Flares and Solar Winds!"
Gold!
This is what happens when you train monkeys to speak using only a 1950s physics textbook and a biography of PT Barnum.
Read Pynchon.
100Tb is a lot of storage, but it won't be enough for a ultra hi-res 60 degree widescreen movie that's been running for just under 32 years.
Even if a third of it is with the lens cap on.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
Let's not forget that this *is* Slashdot. So for most people here you are certainly not going to need a whole disc.
Exhibit A: the number of 'how much of my p0rn collection would fit on one of these babies' jokes posted in the first 0.025 nanoseconds after the story was posted.
Read Pynchon.
The storage unit described is the ROEL (i.e. "recording of entire life") which refers to the number of complete human lives that can be recorded on a single disc. Currently this new media stores a maximum of only 1 Reol, although ongoing research is expected to result in substantial improvent in capacity.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I have an old 10 meg drive in my office. It's big and heavy. I have found the drive advertised for about $700 when it was new.
I like to show it to the "younger" people.
Is this a great hobby or what?
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
1/46th the size of a Volkswagen
So it's 3.5 inches across by 4 feet tall?
Ah, finally something to hold my anime collection :).
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
all you'd have to do is heat it and boom its all scrambled
Ever observed an old fashioned CD ROM in a running microwave?
Yes, but how many of these Bugs can you park in the Library of Congress?
And if you filled the Library of Congress up with these bugs, how much bandwidth would it have? This is the real question.
-ft
dude, DNA doesn't work now? glad you showed us the impossiblity of us existing!
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So it's 3.5 inches across by 4 feet tall?
Well, I don't like to brag.
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Why the incredibly precise price range when we know that every new technology starts high then drops in price?
It already did. This technology has been around since the 1970s, but the government kept it a secret, hidden in Area 51 because up until now the extraterrestrial space aliens from another world were trying to sue Earth because we violated a few of their patents when we inve-- innovated this device.
So this stuff is obviously not new and thus has already dropped in price.
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