A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD?

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 8, 2006 @06:23AM from the through-the-magic-of-magic dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers of a single disc. The system uses lasers to compact large amounts of information onto a DVD and the process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte. Read more for additional references and a diagram showing how this two-photon 3D optical system reads data."

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Re:A Terabyte... For How Long ? by PatrickThomson · 2006-12-08 06:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

using it on regular dvds might be like the days of hole-punching 720k floppies.

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