Slashdot Mirror
1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced
red_dragon writes "An article on The Register tells the news of an announcement of a new 1TB optical drive and disc that will be backwardly compatible with Blu-ray discs. The technology, developed by Call/Recall in partnership with Nichia, uses a rhodamine-type dye in a 200+-layer recording medium that gives off light when excited by a laser beam, along with a single fluid-filled lens to read multiple layers by varying the amount of fluid to change the focal length. The technology is designed to work with Nichia's blue-violet laser diodes, which are already used in Blu-ray drives."
but it doesn't seem practical for daily backups.
Can you give an example of a competing technology that is practical for backing up 1TB daily? Short of having your own tape/cd burner farm?
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
Lets think of it this way. Being able to burn a CD 7 seconds. Or a double Layered DVD under 2 minutes. Thats pritty fast. As of 2008 Most people do not need a 1TB Drives. Unless it is a backup drive. Waiting 3 hours to burn a terrabyes to Backup your Backup drive doesn't seem to crazy. It often takes longer then then to write to the drive anyways espectially if it is an exernal USB 2 drive, which are normally slow, (but cheap and hold a lot of data)
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The nice thing about "mechanical" storage (since when was optical storage "mechanical") is that it is cheap. The amount of storage space on a hard drive has more than outpaced Moore's Law. Optical media hasn't quite kept up with that sort of spectacular growth, but there have been significant advances there too. In my eyes, anything that promises cheaper (in terms of $/GB) storage can only be a GOOD THING.
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
So, how long before I can buy the Library of Alexandria in a Chinese market stall for 10c?
-1 Uncomfortable Truth