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1 Terabyte Optical Storage Disks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lotta-bit-torrents dept.

fenimor writes "Physicists at Imperial College London described a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD. Maybe it won't be as large, as 100TB holographic optical storage, but still should be enough to fit every episode of The Simpsons on one disk. Dr Török, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, believes that the first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015."

4 of 266 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Surprise surprise... by Mouse42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    haha.. you made me laugh so hard and suddenly, I ended up in a painful coughing fit!

    I think it was the "sigh" at the end.

    Well then. Name some other uses other than condensing one's movie collection, and massive backup.

  2. Lovely... by mreed911 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but still should be enough to fit every episode of The Simpsons on one disk. Dr Török, Lecturer in the Department of Physics, believes that the first disks could be on the shelves between 2010 and 2015."

    Great. I'll need to invest at a pretty high interest rate to afford EVERY episode on one disk. Single-season sets are running $30-$50. Ten seasons and you're looking at a CAR PAYMENT...

  3. Re:woah! uberporn! by jmke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    who da man now? :p

  4. Re:It's the transfer rate stupid by Agilis · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    That should keep your average desktop busy in 2010! And picture doing this over a LAN or WAN.
    If bandwidth is an issue, we can always go back to stationwagons.