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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. Graphics inaccuracies by nstrom · · Score: 5, Informative

    The graphic in the article says 10 petabyte, not 100 terabyte. That's a factor of 100 different.

    Also, the second graphic refers to Seagate and "Maxstor"... perhaps they mean Maxtor?

    If Colossal Storage Corp. can't even get their infographics right, I don't know what that says about their ability to make these drives.

    1. Re:Graphics inaccuracies by Mark_in_Brazil · · Score: 5, Informative

      No kidding. Lots of red flags in this article.
      Besides the graphic problems described by the parent post (and "COLOSSAL" in big letters on the drive in the linked cheesy graphic in the PhysOrg article) and Colossal's oh-so-cheesy animated gif-filled site, there are pseudoscience-y claims:
      "Michael invented and patented the world's first and only concept for non-contact UV photon induced electric field poling of ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals"
      "He was invited to present this fascinating discovery to the National Science Foundation in February 2004."
      Puh-leeze. The "science" part sounds like something from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the NSF bit sounds like something out of a cheesy Hollywood script.

      And when we get right down to it, how reliable a source is PhysOrg? This, for example, doesn't strike me as the kind of news one would find on a really serious physics site...

      --Mark

      --
      "It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too." --Eugene Wigner
  2. Re:How fragile is stored data? by scrod · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, This paper would suggest that such a ferroelectric disk would be resistant to stray electromagnetic fields.

  3. It has been done by mangu · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a rather old technology for doing a spawn/merge of your body together with somebody else's. There's some additional details, with graphics, here.