DVD-compatible optical disk hits 100 Gbytes

EE Times ^ | May 24, 2002 | Mike Clendenin

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Cool. Wonder how this will shake out with the nanomachine terabit rewriteable memory.

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And more on future storage technology is here:

Extra: stretching the storage of today's DVDs

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"One hundred gigabytes is not the limit; it is just the beginning. Our goal is terabit," he said.

Sounds like an misstatement here. A hundred gigabytes is just short of a terabit already.

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Dunno, just came across this:

Darpa awards next-generation computing contracts

WASHINGTON — Four computer makers will study concepts for a new generation of affordable, scalable computing systems under contracts awarded on Wednesday (June 12) by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).

.........more at the link..............

High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS)>/a>

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And about Quantum Computing:

Quantum Computation/Cryptography at Los Alamos

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And a Dilbert cartoon:

[Zon]

There's roughly one thousand gigabytes to a terabyte. Thus a hundred gigabytes is roughly one tenth the capacity of a terabyte.

Megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes
Gigabyte = 1,073,741,824 bytes
Terabyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.

[DoughtyOne]

That was my take as well. Thanks.

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Note that the excerpted phrase included the quantitative terms 'gigabyte' and 'terabit', hence my comment.

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A byte, of course, consists of eight bits which accounts for most of the order of magnitude difference here between 100 gig and 1 tera.

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Hope this clarifies my comment.

[Zon]

"A hundred gigabytes is just short of a terabit already."

I guess I still don't see what you mean because a hundred gigabytes is not just short of a terabyte. There's a tenfold difference

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I did not refer to a terabyte in that post, but a terabit.

[Alan Chapman]

Petabyte = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes
Exabyte = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes
Zettabyte = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes
Yottabyte = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes

[Zon]

You're right, I didn't catch the byte versus bit.

[Zon]

Hope this clarifies my comment.

Yes, and for future clarity it is comparing bits to bytes. I'll try to remember phrasing it that way.

[mikrofon]

"A petabyte here, a zettabyte there -- pretty soon you're talking some real storage ..." ;^)

[Dimensio]

This just in. The RIAA and the MPAA are demanding that Congress pass legislation banning this kind of technology, citing piracy concerns.