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Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc

Posted by timothy on from the load-up-the-station-wagon-with-these dept.

CWmike writes "Start-up Millenniata and LG plan to soon release a new optical disc and read/write player that will store movies, photos or any other data forever. The data can be accessed using any current DVD or Blu-ray player. The M-Disc can be dipped in liquid nitrogen and then boiling water without harming it. It also has a Defense Department study (PDF) backing up the resiliency of its product compared with other leading optical disc competitors. The company would not disclose what material is used to produce the optical discs, referring to it only as a 'natural' substance that is 'stone-like.' Like DVDs and Blu-ray discs, the M-Disc platters are made up of multiple layers of material. But there is no reflective, or die, layer. Instead, during the recording process a laser 'etches' pits onto the substrate material."

5 of 261 comments (clear)

  1. I knew it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stonehenge is a data center! I wonder if they're hiring?

  2. It's durable... by jspayne · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...but the write times are a bitch.

    *chinkchink. pause. chink. pause. chinkchink. *

  3. Re:Bedrock: by GrumpySteen · · Score: 5, Funny

    M-Disc
    Meet the M-Disc
    It's modern stone-age data storage, you need

    M-Disc
    Meet the M-Disc
    It will store your data till the human race is history

    Let's write the data on a piece of stone-like strata
    Thanks to the guys at Millenniata

    When you use the M-Disk
    Your data will last a life time
    Even more than a life time
    Your data will last a long ass time!

    Is my boredom showing?

  4. The "die" layer must be why by rpresser · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the CD/DVD/BD discs don't last. If only they'd used a dye layer instead.

  5. Re:Immortal Reader As Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Archaeologist: It appears the ancients worshipped a god known only as "RFC", whose commandments were numbereed consecutively. There is some confusion as to whether these were taken as literal commandments or spiritual allegories; while some seem to dictate simple enough standards for a (primitive) digital society, a few seem distinctly implausible, involving e.g. using pigeons for data transfer; some researchers contend these were wholy allegorical, while others suggest these were actual ceremonies carried out at religious festivals known as "cons".