Researchers create optical media with 1.6 terabyte capacity

news article released on: 20 May, 2009

A team of researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have announced today they have created a "five-dimensional" optical media that can hold up to 1.6 terabytes of data, and that could easily be on the market within 10 years. The researchers used 'nanoparticles and a "polarization" dimension' to create the massive storage capacity. The team has already signed ...

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Blackjax

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I bet its less than 10 years before it hits stores. I just hate to think what it will cost for something like this when its first out. Star tek here we come!

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it's a big gamble for Samsung, that tech would not have come cheap.
How many of us use DVD's for anything other than off-line backup?

as networks get faster and bandwidth gets cheaper will we need off-line media in 10 years?

good for backups though...

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Swineburne eh? I bet they're celebrating on uni night at The Hawthorne. ;)

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1.6 terabytes is fantastic but unless those discs are more scratch and smudge resistant than current discs, it'd be hesitant to risk losing that much data. Thanks, but once I reach that capacity level, I'll stick with hard drives instead.

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10 Years? Why even bother? There are about a dozen flash-like technologies in the pipeline for the next 6 years that will make this worthless.

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This story is CRAP. Every few years some company comes out and brags how they can store this much on a disc...but they will never be able to manufacture it for the masses. The cost would be out of this world. Look how much a 50gig blu-ray costs. Even at Newegg they are 20 bucks each!

LAME.

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windsong, that is what I thought when I read about hard disks breaking the 1 gig limit. The article claimed they would be out by the end of the year and it was already spring. I couldn't help laughing. I saw a 1.2 g on sale in Nov. What a shock! By Jan they were selling 2 g drives.

Yes it would depend on how cheaply they can be made.

5fdpfan, maybe these do not come on a spindle. Maybe they will be housed in a case like 3.5 floppies.

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Developing and implementing the 1.6tb disc is easy project
Now the hard part is players that are able to read those
for bd-r backups in the begining what brand and which players supports.I think we have long way to go

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Sounds interesting but it's only impressive now. Technology improves at such a fast rate that Terabytes might become the new Gigabyte if you get my drift...I mean a few years ago I used to think a gig was a lot of space but now ...a gig for me is nothing.

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"Another optical media base on cds"! what happened with the holographic card?

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Come on...where are those 3D storage cube prisms from Star Trek at?

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That's a good size but in 10 years 1TB of flash storage should be around 150$, I think the 1.6TB SDD drive is about what 2 or 5(or 20 lulz) grand?

SDD will replace current HDD tech and if it can get 100GB at 10-30$(consumer price FYI) it can easily replace discs.

Witht hat said why can we have cart protection for discs like this?

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I won't be happy until I get crystal rod storage. LOL.

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I'd rather have floppys. Where are the 1 TB FLOPPYS at??? LOL.

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Originally posted by SProdigy:
I'd rather have floppys. Where are the 1 TB FLOPPYS at??? LOL.

they flopped out at the last convention.

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Quote:
Originally posted by SProdigy:
I'd rather have floppys. Where are the 1 TB FLOPPYS at??? LOL.
they flopped out at the last convention.

Besides the more damageable the disc the more money they can get in the long run....

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"Another optical media base on cds"! what happened with the holographic card?

mostly likey for bwc, i dont see any other reason to contuine using them

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