New Technology to Enable 1PetaByte Optical Discs. -- Researchers Develop 1000TB Optical Discs

Xbitlabs ^ | 06/24/2013 07:42 PM | Anton Shilov

[ShadowAce]

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Peta is a thousand trillion? Washington Democrats thank you! They were worried that they’d be stuck at just hundreds of trillions of dollars.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How does lithography impact storage,...I maybe am missing simethib here.

[ClearCase_guy]

Overcoming a fundamental law of physics

Sweet!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I remember when the CD ROM was the Holy Grail of optical storage.

[CottShop]

[[Overcoming a fundamental law of physics]]

Woohoo- perpetual motion machines in the near future-

[dfwgator]

That’ll store a lot of pr0n.

[cuban leaf]

the development with CSIRO of a unique two-photon absorption resin.

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I wondered if the article would get to that. It’s the same principle used by the device that was used to transport me to this assignment from my home world. The return trip is slower - at least the part to the transmitter on the dark side of the moon.

[ClearCase_guy]

But why bother?

'640K of memory should be enough for anybody.'

NOTE: although often attributed to Bill Gates, apparently he never actually said this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The sequence is actually 1024 times....

Binary system so we have ....2, 4. 8, 16,32, 64, 128, 256, 512. 1024.

Now for the words,...we have Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zetabyte....etc

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Next some lab will overturn the speed of light as the ultimate speed.

[wally_bert]

I can put everything in the numerous boxes of burned discs on one eventually.

[Springfield Reformer]

So, OK, when do those 4T drives at Best Buy start coming down in price? And when can I get my entire personal collection of digital stuff on a single disk, which I can then lose in my couch or otherwise misplace?

Or better yet, when will MS come out with its first multi-Terabyte OS, based on the principle that all available storage space, no matter how large, are belong to them?

[Bob]

But why bother?

'640K of memory should be enough for anybody.'

NOTE: although often attributed to Bill Gates, apparently he never actually said this.

Given the costs of memory at the time the statement was made, the whole idea of buying more than 640k was ludicrous.

An upgrade from 64k to 128k was extremely expensive in the early 1980s. While I don't recall the exact numbers, I'm fairly sure that such an upgrade would have easily cost hundreds of dollars.

[ShadowAce]

Lithography is merely the art, or act, or writing. It’s got everything to do with storage. :)

[ShadowAce]

of writing.....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You ask some tough questions....I am still working on understandding the Graphic that goes with the article...

says 3D Fabrication of Multilayer....

[cuban leaf]

I thought someone had already done that. ;-)

[Gay State Conservative]

Just think of all the data some $100K/yr floor sweeper at IRS Headquarters could carry around in his pocket...ready to sell to the highest bidder.