The best solution is prolly a tape drive. Something like www.exabyte.com, they list a auto-loader that stores 12TB in the tower (X200), with 324MB/hr transfer rates. That'd leave a lot of tape reloading every day, though. I'm not too sure about other providers in the area.
Ruroni Kenshin is a new release (the first dvds aren't out yet), but it's been out in Japanese for a long time. It's certainly one of the better series I've seen, and it's definitely something I'm buying as soon as it's released. The quality of the dub, I'm unsure about. But I've heard a few scattered good things about the sub. The DVD is supposed to have both available.
On the other hand, you also have the earlier Bell Labs article; according to that, they managed 160 billion bits on a single wavelength; this, on the other hand, is likely more of a public use of the method. In comparison, however, it doesn't size up; tat 160 billion bits per wavelength, it would have only taken 20 wavelengths to manage this throughput, and I'm reading the article as them having 4 times that many wavelengths. Perhaps, at a certain point, they merely cannot distinguish that much data on cluttered wavelengths yet? Seems like a disappointment, after the hopes of 160 billion bits across 1000 wavelengths. Then again, maybe we'll be seeing Bell Labs breaking yet another record sometime soon.
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The best solution is prolly a tape drive. Something like www.exabyte.com, they list a auto-loader that stores 12TB in the tower (X200), with 324MB/hr transfer rates. That'd leave a lot of tape reloading every day, though. I'm not too sure about other providers in the area.
Ruroni Kenshin is a new release (the first dvds aren't out yet), but it's been out in Japanese for a long time. It's certainly one of the better series I've seen, and it's definitely something I'm buying as soon as it's released. The quality of the dub, I'm unsure about. But I've heard a few scattered good things about the sub. The DVD is supposed to have both available.
On the other hand, you also have the earlier Bell Labs article; according to that, they managed 160 billion bits on a single wavelength; this, on the other hand, is likely more of a public use of the method. In comparison, however, it doesn't size up; tat 160 billion bits per wavelength, it would have only taken 20 wavelengths to manage this throughput, and I'm reading the article as them having 4 times that many wavelengths. Perhaps, at a certain point, they merely cannot distinguish that much data on cluttered wavelengths yet? Seems like a disappointment, after the hopes of 160 billion bits across 1000 wavelengths. Then again, maybe we'll be seeing Bell Labs breaking yet another record sometime soon.
...will it then be the first console system to blue screen?