Taiwan develops new 100GB optical disc

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#1

I just posted the article Taiwan develops new 100GB optical disc.

Alt173 used our newssubmit to tell us that Taiwanese researchers have successfully developed a new optical disc that can hold more than 100 gigabytes of information.

By using “near-field”…

Read the full article here:  [http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/3884-Taiwan-develops-new-100GB-optical-disc.html](http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/3884-Taiwan-develops-new-100GB-optical-disc.html)

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#2

So if the old Red laser can reach 100GB how much can the Blue laser then do :slight_smile: I guess we can say 1TB :)… Atleast.

#3

Hope it is not a stack of cdrw with multiple heads. It is interested to see if we will have serial bus instead of the current ide parallel bus. man

#4

Hmm, come on, lets see this in the consumer market. I’d love a couple of these drives at home. Pity it’s gonna be years before it happens.

#5

what about using a bunch of them as HDD? i guess mos of us could wait some seconds to let it read and write… well… actually we already do :slight_smile:

#6

So I can finally watch my movies uncompressed :g . Finally 2,9966163694558756287151348879744 hours of uncompressed video! ( (100Gb * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)/(25fps * 720 * 576 * 24 ) According to the European Pal video format :slight_smile: I know that compressed video would probably be more interresting, but still, it would be nice watching RAW movies. :9

#7

Can’t wait till these mass-storage devices will be available for consumers! :smiley:

#8

28,571 mp3s. 2,381 of your favorite albums for a road trip. Mmmm I don’t know maybe I’ll wait till somethimg bigger comes along. …Can’t wait hopefully it burns faster than 1X.