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Pioneer Ultraviolet Laser Promises 500GB Discs

Posted by samzenpus on from the i-love-lasers dept.

No Fortune writes "Here's an article indicating that Pioneer is developing an ultraviolet laser for data storage. Since the wavelength of ultraviolet lasers is shorter than the wavelength of blue lasers, the beams are finer and they can pack more data into per square inch. This gives a data rate 20 times more than the blue laser Blue-ray disk."

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  1. In The Mysterious Future! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Gamma Laser Promises 500 PB Discs

    Here's an article indicating that Microsoft is developing a gamma laser for data storage. Since the wavelength of gamma lasers is shorter than the wavelength of ultraviolet lasers, the beams are finer and they can pack more data into per square inch. This gives a data rate 1,000,000 times more than the ultraviolet laser discs.

    1. Re:In The Mysterious Future! by SpookyFish · · Score: 5, Funny


      Sweet, so Office XP 2k13 will still fit on one disc!

    2. Re:In The Mysterious Future! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, but users will get so frustrated during the installation and multiple activation steps, that they'll turn green, grow huge muscles, and trash everything in site.

  2. All I can say is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like I have to buy the White Album again.

  3. Why are we waiting? by klubkid79 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And there is nothing I want more than to wait 3.6 days for a disk to finish writing..

  4. So can we write-protect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...by putting sunscreen on them?

  5. Re:Blue, Ultraviolet, Meh by Laser+Dan · · Score: 3, Funny

    They would hold a lot, but since the gamma rays would go right through any CD-like disk it might be hard to read or write to them!

    Better not put your feet under the table either or they might get cancer and fall off!