Remember the post on Japanese researchers working on a 42GB DVD?
Well, that’s already old news. Check out these 16 layer optical drives from pioneer at 400GB.
It’s not really called DVDs but pretty much they are 400GB DVDs.
Pioneer announced they succeeded to develop the World’s First 16-Layer Optical Disc. This new audio-visual aid offers a storage capacity of 400 gigabytes: it correspond to 25GB per layer. The manufacturer should introduce it at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 in Hawaii.
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that has more memory than some computers…
wow… what would you fill it with?
Girrrrrr2 you are back! 🙂
400GB is huge! On one disc. This should make blu-ray & HD-DVD obsolete pretty quick! My computers hard drive is only 200GB, and I haven’t used half of it over the last two years. What exactly are you going to store on such a huge disc? Loads of music, tons of movies? Who knows. The nice thing is that you’ll be able to pretty much backup your entire hard drive on one disc!
400GB is barely adequate but it will cut down on my backup chores.
I recently had a 1TB drive fail on me and that was pretty easy to recover from with DVD-RWs as backups but that would cut the insert/recoval cycle diwn to only 3 disks and that becomes easier on the techs, so I’d be happier.
Sorry folks out there who think this is big but its NOT.