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Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data

Posted by Zonk on from the bigger-and-bigger-storage dept.

jcatcw writes "Lucas Mearian at ComputerWorld has a story about a company that plans to demonstrate a new DVD-format at the January CES conference. The .6mm thick disc stores 500GB of data by writing 5GB of data on each of 100 layers within a polymer material similar to Plexiglass. The Israel-based company, Mempile Inc., said its TeraDisc DVDs will offer 1TB of storage for consumers in the next few years, but it's also targeting corporate data archive needs with the new technology that write bits at the molecular level on the florescent-colored polymer. The company plans to sell its first product, a 700GB disc for $30."

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  1. Dammit by thewils · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...and I just bought myself a Blu-ray :(

    Bloody typical.

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    1. Re:Dammit by jd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You do understand that that is how progress happens? When the number of people who have just bought a technology exceeds the critical threshold, new products are announced. Who'se ever heard of a new product announcement for something that hasn't just been bought? How often do you hear of a breakthrough that never led to a product, all because there were too few who has just bought the last generation? You are to be honored, for you are of Those Special Buyers who exceeded the threshold for optical mass storage.

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  2. Every one of these formats are worth jack by schnikies79 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    until they have a cheap (burner AND media) version for the desktop.

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  3. Is it just me or by carp3_noct3m · · Score: 2, Insightful

    does this seem like making a vhs that can hold 40 hours of video? Cd/DVDs are on the beginning slope of the trash shute, SSD and other technologies are the things up and coming. But on the other hand dvd, Hddvd and bluray are here to, so who knows, but if it were me Id be working on an organic memory cube that measures the size of my fingernail and that I can download the contents of my brain onto... I for one welcome our brain downloading overlords?

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  4. Re:DVD/CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you only get DRM on plexiglass-like DVDs.

  5. Oh for goodness sakes... by AbRASiON · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I saw this on Maxconsole about 12 hours ago, I though to myself - I hope slashdot don't report on that stuff, those guys have a bit more sense, the more technical types know vaopourware when we see it.

    but no........

    Most of us enthusiasts and techs on this site have been reading about 'magical future disc formats'!!! since about when the CD came out for PC's well over 10 years ago, it's all bloody rubbish until their is one on shelves, period.

  6. Fluorescent-colored? by noidentity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    fluorescent-colored polymer


    Hmmm, what color is that exactly?

  7. Re:I only have one wish... by Colin+Smith · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, FFS. You just wait till one side wins, let the early adopter retards pay all the development, marketing costs and take the risk.

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  8. Re:I only have one wish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Tip for managing your porn collection: Each month delete half of it at random. You really won't notice the difference.

  9. Um, slower than what, exactly? by svunt · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I have an archive of ~5TB, currently on DVD for the most part. The current archiving process requires me to get off the couch every 6-8 minutes to catalogue the burned disc, label it, archive it, put in the next disc, start burning. So if I move to triple layer HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs, and I get to burn ten DVDs worth of data on a disc, do you really think I'm going to suffer here, because of all the layers? No, I'll have to get off the couch LESS often, and still get more burned in less time on fewer discs.

    Slow....boo hoo hoo - slower than what?