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100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the finally-enough-room-for-all-our-pr0n dept.

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."

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows will have a base install size of 99 terabytes

  2. Not quite $45 per disk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget the $1/megabyte tax that the RIAA will undoubtedly impose. The price becomes a little prohibitive.

  3. Replacement lives needed ... by foobsr · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    CC.

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  4. Coming Soon... by two-tail · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 100 Terabyte iPod! Now available for the 300%-profit-margin price of $99999!

  5. This stuff writes itself! by caitsith01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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  6. 100Tb is nowhere near enough by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:"record our entire lives" by caitsith01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:"record our entire lives" by ultranova · · Score: 4, Funny

    A good quality 2 hour MPEG4 movie can fit in 1GB, so one of these discs stores 100,000 movies. If you can spend 4 hours per day watching movies, it will take more than 140 years to watch them all.

    Ah, finally something to hold my anime collection :).

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  9. Re:"record our entire lives" by Loualbano2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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