I saw this today... can you believe it, a 1 TB optical disc... more than my whole hard drive :)
Just take a look how transparent it is... looks like ordinary plastic but it actually has 16 recording layers, each of which has a capacity of 32 GB on each side of the disc.
It uses the same technology like Blu-Ray discs to write and read from the disc and could almost work in a Blu-Ray player, but it's more than double as thick as a Blu-Ray disc. It's gonna take a while until first players and burners for this disc appear on the market.
Great product if you ask me - just burn your whole hard drive to a disc to make a backup, no need to burn 20 DVDs.
Who knows when it's gonna be commercially available but i look forward to it.
I think most people wouldn't believe you if you would say to them you got 1 TB on this disc, they would probably think it's the useless plastic from the bottom of a DVD pile :)
I definitely need to get one of these, just have to wait oh maybe a couple years till it's actually affordable lol.
ReplyDeletecan't wait for that to come ! :D
ReplyDeletethis looks sweet.
ReplyDeletethis is crazy. i remember having a 50gb hard drive and thinking that was huge
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely amazing, but within four years we will look back at this and call it a primitive piece of junk.
ReplyDeleteThis is incredible. But I agree with Sebastian.
ReplyDeleteI just wish they'd bring out iPods that big in the near future.
holy shazam
ReplyDeletei don't know if i would want it to be double sided, how to label it?
ReplyDeleteAWESOME!
ReplyDeleteamazing i only have 80 gb hard drive xD
ReplyDelete@pixel
ReplyDeletegood point :)
i don't know, we'll see when it comes out and in what form, maybe modified...
Great post! Following you.
ReplyDeletereally, i need this
ReplyDeletethats mass storage.
ReplyDeletewow, I wonder how reliable this would be
ReplyDeleteehhh i dunno, anything that cant rewite is kind of a waste
ReplyDeletewow great
ReplyDeletewas waiting for something like that
Holy shit! I remember when I was in undergrad, we were still puzzled with how to transfer 1 TB of data from one system to another. Of course, then, 56k modems were still the thing, and T1 was the fastest internet anyone could find. LOL... this is amazing!
ReplyDeletecan it get more Sci-Fi than this?
ReplyDeletemore than a harddrive? its so.... surreal
ReplyDeletei wonder how much these things are going to cost?
ReplyDelete:O
ReplyDeletedvd -R XD
i wonder how expensive this is going to be
ReplyDeletewow.. i would no more use HD.. just put on a CD and take all my things with me into my pocket
ReplyDeletenice post man
following
how much data will be lost if scratched?
ReplyDeletewhoa, now this is cool.
ReplyDeletedo you know how much this will cost?
ReplyDelete@ Fuuuuuuuu
ReplyDeleteWe can only speculate but it'll take a while and it's probably be expensive (you have to buy a special burner for it that doesn't exist yet as far as i know)
TDK expects that the new optical disc will be used as a home-use recording medium, a backup medium and a medium for a broadcasting service.
They said that its commercialization depends on disc manufacturers.
wonder how much this media costs. lol
ReplyDeletei want one
ReplyDeleteMind: blown.
ReplyDeleteAnd they're transparent, that make 'em greater, lol. I'd burn a lot of movies in one of those discs.
ReplyDeletei cant wait for that to buy one
ReplyDeletelooks cool!
ReplyDeleteSounds like it's worth a try. Looking forward to seeing on markets.
ReplyDeleteshti, taht is some sweet stuff, i didn`t know they made those
ReplyDeleteI doubt I'll ever be in need of such a huge disc! None the less, it's going to be insanely good for huge server companies who has to backbone store entire software databases!
ReplyDeleteVery nice information none the less.. Although I doubt it's gonna come cheap!
aw hell! 1Tb! and what must user do with all this disk space?
ReplyDelete1 TB looks like a lot
ReplyDeleteThese look like the fake CDs that came with the tower CD pack. (You know, the transparent ones on top of the others)
ReplyDeleteone scratch might mess up a bunch of data
ReplyDeletedo you know how much this will cost?
ReplyDeleteWhoa, that's amazing!
ReplyDeleteanymore info on these discs?
ReplyDeletewell no one knows how much it'll cost because it hasn't entered the market yet...
ReplyDeletehttp://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20101009/186359/
any new updates?
ReplyDeletefunny!
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