Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc

Wonder how long it will take to burn a writable holographic disc? Would be interesting to see how GE and their hardware partners are going to price this... once they get it to the consumers, of course. The headline should actually read "Breakthrough can put 100 single-layer DVDs on a disc".
 
Hah it would probably take me 2 years to fill a disc like that up with my current local internet cap :p
 
Not bad - I will be able to put my entire movie collection on 4 or 5 discs!
 
I think we will be fine with Dual-layer and Blu-Rayfor now
Unless the new technology is rewritable... its of very little use anyway

Its good to have all the new technologies... but lets first get used to the present stuff.. specially the fortune we have to pay for it each time :)
 
"can be mass-produced at affordable prices." If that is true then bring it on!
 
Disks are highly unreliable

Always get dusty
Almost never last more than only a few months
Can't fit in your pocket
Are slow
Can't be re-written
they break easily
Have plenty compatibility and 'classing' issues ...........



by 2011 we will already have 128GB MicroSD's
www.physorg.com/news143893844.html

By the time this gets fully commercialized we would already be with double the sides in MicroSD, why are we making such a big deal of disks then????/
 
Well, just shy of 500Gb on a single disk, and if it is a fraction of the price of a flashdisk, then this makes perfect sense.

Imagine most of us can make a complete backup of our PC, like in complete, down to the games installed and movies on the PC. If this is coming in rewritable then we will have a sure winner. Only thing is, how long will it take to write 500Gb to disk?

They will need to figure out some serious burning techniques since waiting a few days for a disk to complete is a big no-no.

Hmmmm, flashdisk vs Compact Disk...
Hmmmmmm......
 
And how much this drive would cost?

MicroSD's :

2011: 128 GB ~R800, and this thing only starts to arive in the market by 2012, rem how cheap hddvd was going to be? now, 3 years later it's R50 a disk


by 2015 we would have ~2000GB SD cards, or 500GB ones for R200, to add they will not break, they will be far more portable, they could be re-written(halogram cannot), and above all they are reliable.
 
Awesome!
So, google were right about there storage predictions; something along the line of : In the near future, storage space will be extremely cheap and plentiful.
 
phenom said:
Disks are highly unreliable

Always get dusty
Almost never last more than only a few months
Can't fit in your pocket
Are slow
Can't be re-written
they break easily
Have plenty compatibility and 'classing' issues ...........



by 2011 we will already have 128GB MicroSD's
www.physorg.com/news143893844.html

By the time this gets fully commercialized we would already be with double the sides in MicroSD, why are we making such a big deal of disks then????/
Click to expand...

By which time, a 128GB microSD won't be enough storage space...

I backup all my stuff on discs and I must say, they never got dusty, have discs from 6 years ago, don't wanna re-write em cos they are backups and apart from a dodgy Samsung optical drive, I've never broken a disc either :rolleyes:

/* wonders what the hell phenom does with his discs */
 
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