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New Technique For Optical Storage Claims 1 Petabyte On a Single DVD

Posted by samzenpus on from the that's-a-long-movie dept.

melios writes "Using a two-light-beam method a company claims to have overcome Abbe's Law to dramatically increase the storage density for optical media, to the 9 nm scale. From the article: 'The technique is also cost-effective and portable, as only conventional optical and laser elements are used, and allows for the development of optical data storage with long life and low energy consumption, which could be an ideal platform for a Big Data centre.'"

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  1. Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was wondering where my pron collection would fit...

    1. Re:Good! by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And you can copy such a disk in just under a week.

  2. I really love this by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have been looking forward to this for a long, long time... I

    As screw the build up. I just wanted to say "peta-file" It's a funny word.

  3. Wonderful by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now our politicians and bankers can leave even more customer information on a train.

  4. Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've been reading stories like this for 20 years and I still get little-girl-meets-Bieber excited when I think about being able to back up to just one disk...

    Could have been worse. What if you got Bieber-meets-little-girl excited?

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  5. Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! by philip.paradis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bieber is a lesbian, not a pedophile, at least not that we know of.

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  6. Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    CD: 650 MB
    DVD: 4.7-8.5 GB (7-13x CD)
    Blu-Ray: 25-50 GB (6x DVD)

    1 PB is 20,000x Blu-Ray.

    One of these things is not like the others.

    Yup, and it's Blu-Ray. Almost as many letters as the other three combined, plus it uses vowels!

  7. Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nuh uh.

    Magic.

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  8. Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "If I've RTFA correctly, ..."

    (gasp) an actual, genuine AR, don't frighten him, they are very rare.