Holographic Versatile Disc - 1 terabyte on a single disc!

[Aquilonious]

Thought you all might be interested in seeing this:

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/home_av/others/0,39037627,39246097,00.htm

[bourtzovlakas]

That is nice, but take a look at this...

http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/zavlakas/23667/488148/0/NAL+25TB+Disc.jpg

[Aquilonious]

That is nice, but take a look at this...
But where's the review site?

HVD is promoted by a consortium including CMC & Fuji, among others--so it's got some weight behind it. It's being pushed as the next standard after HD-DVD/Blu-Ray.

Here's more on info HVD:
http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,95446,00.html
http://www.physorg.com/news2563.html

[Carlos Garcia]

That is nice, but take a look at this...

http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/zavlakas/23667/488148/0/NAL+25TB+Disc.jpg

A disc that can store as many as 5,000 regular DVDs on it? Time to throw away the DVD-Changers, and all the shelves. How many years before these babies hit the scene?

[Laughing Man]

Probably centuries before it's even affordable for us.

[Carlos Garcia]

Probably centuries before it's even affordable for us.

Oh I don't know. 10 yrs ago I bought a 1 gig hard drive for $500. Today you can get a 500 gig (1/2 a terabyte) for about $350. If you figure today we get 500 times as much storage as we did 10 years ago, for a reasonable price, why can't we imagine we'll get 500 times as much storage as today (or 250 terabytes) in 10 yrs? Terabyte storage will get here in one form or another, and it will be affordable...it's all part of computing, and how we can never keep up with its massive and constant growth.

[Laughing Man]

Dunno I just see Blu-Ray and HD-DVD being what's replacing DVDs for now. Plus with recordable formats they always seem to be random of what makes it or not. Imagine all those formats that tried to make the market yet never succeeded. o.o

[guada 2]

In truth, what would be the utility of this disk? 25 TB Data..

[Carlos Garcia]

In truth, what would be the utility of this disk? 25 TB Data..

Are you kidding? I'd back up my entire DVD collection on 1 of these discs. Would you rather have 5,000 DVD discs lying all over the place, or 1 disc with everything on it? Of course it would be nice to have 2 or 3 backups just in case the original fails. Anyway, to answer your question, this disk would be a great space saver, among other things.

[charleski]

Are you kidding? I'd back up my entire DVD collection on 1 of these discs. No idea of the price of these 25Tb discs, but given that the 1Tb discs will start out costing $100 each, I'd suspect that 1 is all I could afford :) .

[guada 2]

I joke Carlos Garcia. :)

However, I would have agreed to see the head of the burnerr (to test his speed, its sharpness of burn).
For the video HD it would be a beautiful baby, one would not speak even more video compression.

[markrb]

At today's data transfer and burn rates that disc will take weeks to fill.

Mark

[guada 2]

Surely Mark,
Unless a new process is not revealed soon.
A new technology answering the perfect maitrise of lasers.
"WHO KNOWS".