300GB Disc Set...

[Luk3us 63]

A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more data will go on sale in 2006, according to its American developer InPhase Technologies, a Lucent spin off.

 

The discs, holding 300GB each, use so-called Tapestry holographic memory technology to store data by interference of light. They are also able to read and write data at 10 times the speed of a normal DVD.

 

 

Clikcey

[Sonic 296]

Won't they need to make new types of drives for these new discs then?

[Louis EX 0]

With every new type of disc you always will need a new type of drive for it.

Its common sense.

Unless they find another to do it without a drive.

[Tree 0]

I see into the future:

 

Within the next year, terabyte hard drives will be a common thing.

 

I mean, with 300GB DVDs, set up a modified array of these and BAM!

[BWare 0]

Nice.... future technology rocks.

 

Bill Gates once said that 1 gigabit of data is all anyone will ever need :lol:

[Tree 0]

gigabit or gigabyte? Considerable difference between the two.

[Mr_Lee_ 0]

1 Gigabyte or 8 Gigabits, take your pick :wink:

[BWare 0]

whoops :oops:

[Saracen 16]

2006 seems a bit soon for this sort of medium. I mean I heard about the DVD's creation back in early 1995, it never really took off for a few years after. And when you consider DVD discs only really becoming commercially Viable to the whole computer industry in 2003, I doubt this disc will not really have any impact on the public for at least another 7-10 years.

 

All these huge disc mediums have me suspect though. I mean everyone was raving about how good the Iomega Disks were, that failed and sunk like a lead balloon. I see this disc being exactly the same.

 

I can see blue-ray or HD-DVD suceeding in some ways, due to their smaller capacities. But 300GB is way too much at this present time, like the Iomega disc, it was too much space too soon, and it was too damn expensive..

 

If this pays off I will be extremely suprised, but all I see is it doomed to failure.

[fire_fox_1990 0]

omg my school has 3 terabyte and omly used 300 magabytes AAAAAAAAAAAA the power ops i meen the space,the space,THE SPACE

[Tree 0]

Your school has 3tb of available space because all of the computers are networked together. Each computer probably has at least an 80 gig hard drive. The school I work at has 270 computers, 7 servers all networked together. We have around 2TB of available space.

 

Why does the available space matter? Some of those computers store vital school information that racks up over time. Schedule information, digital student records, etc.

 

I find it hard to believe your school has only used 300 megabytes. Possibly gigabytes, but not MB. You probably have a storage quota set on your account anyway.

 

Bah, I get sick of this every day...

[GeneralZ 0]

what need that much space.

 

DVDs are good for pcs. my SW battlefront 2 comes in 1 dvd disc as opposed to 4 CD discs. much simpler since DVD is higher capacity. me thinks i'll get all my games on dvd version

[Tree 0]

what need that much space.

 

In general, or in schools?

[BWare 0]

There's ALWAYS a need for more space. They used to think that CDs were ridiculously large, and now they're on their way out because they're too small.

[Alphabear 11]

yeah they may need a disk that can hold that mcuh data eventually but i doubt that it will be needed in 2006. it might be good for backing up files in offices but there arent many software programs that are 300gb in size at the moment. most computers dont even hold that much at this stage

[Cygnus X-1 12]

I could do with a 300 GB HD

 

Keep all my games on it at once

 

those Blue Laser disks that the PS3 uses-that I can see easily happeneing

 

10 years maybe we will need the 300 GB , but not now