1 terabyte optical disks in the future? Ooooh yeea

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A few hundred movies on an optical disc? That's the goal of the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance.

Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc.
A TB-size disc would certainly compress movie collections. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.
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I doubt these will be hitting anyone's homes anytime soon, but that's pretty damn slick.

What's annoying though is that these corporations can't agree on a single standard. By the time the HD-DVD's, Blu-Ray, and now these HVD's get out, we'll probably need 3 different burners for each of these mediums... at least until the public decides which format will ultimately be the future of video formats (think VHS vs Betamax)
 
There's also a new wave of Hard Drives being tested and introduced. They will involve multiple hot points pressing into the surface of the hard disks. The area that is taken up by the imprint made will be easily relocated to around the point, for re-formatting. It's said that Terabyte hdd's will be a thing of the coming years, and that it's code-named "Millipede."
 
that would be amazing storage but how dependable would the burners be without being huge heavy duty burners...wouldnt that put a huge amount of stress on teh burner?not to mention use up like 99.999 percent of your ram
 
I sure hope the quality of the disc will be good. That would suck if after a couple years the data got corrupted.
 
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that would be amazing storage but how dependable would the burners be without being huge heavy duty burners...wouldnt that put a huge amount of stress on teh burner?not to mention use up like 99.999 percent of your ram
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In terms of ram, this is all future stuff so ram should be improved/cheapened by then. Anyone considering such a burner probably would have a pretty good system in the first place.
 
Isn't the human brain supposed to have 4TB of space?

Seeing as I could never fill up even a 140GB HD, this would be mere novelty for me.

Also, how long would a 1TB defrag take, after a few months of use? :crazy:
 
It would take a while. Lets just leave it at that, :lol:.
 
what ever happened to laserdisc technology? barcodes were mondo-fun.
 
DrogoGTO
Isn't the human brain supposed to have 4TB of space?

Seeing as I could never fill up even a 140GB HD, this would be mere novelty for me.

Also, how long would a 1TB defrag take, after a few months of use? :crazy:
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Well, hardware outside of hard drives themselves is also progressing. Take BTX formfactors, XP64, Serial ATA RAID, PCI-Express, Alderwood 1066 mhz fsb chipsets, and DDR2 ram for instance.
 
This is most interesting. Not necessarily the quantity of data in question but merely the introduction of a new medium in HVD. I hope it comes through soon.
 
Well, expected BTX format as a staple is this coming summer, PCI-Express is already heavily implemented, higher FSB's are now available via the Alderwood Chipset/P4 3.46EE CPU combo only (I'm talking non-AMD here), SATA RAID is about 4 months into the at-home-user stage, DDR2 comes with typical PCI-Express setups, and XP64 is 2 years off.
 

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