New Technique For Optical Storage Claims 1 Petabyte On a Single DVD 182
melios writes "Using a two-light-beam method a company claims to have overcome Abbe's Law to dramatically increase the storage density for optical media, to the 9 nm scale. From the article: 'The technique is also cost-effective and portable, as only conventional optical and laser elements are used, and allows for the development of optical data storage with long life and low energy consumption, which could be an ideal platform for a Big Data centre.'"
Good! (Score:5, Funny)
I was wondering where my pron collection would fit...
Re:Good! (Score:5, Funny)
And you can copy such a disk in just under a week.
I really love this (Score:5, Funny)
I have been looking forward to this for a long, long time... I
As screw the build up. I just wanted to say "peta-file" It's a funny word.
Wonderful (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! (Score:2, Funny)
I've been reading stories like this for 20 years and I still get little-girl-meets-Bieber excited when I think about being able to back up to just one disk...
Could have been worse. What if you got Bieber-meets-little-girl excited?
Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! (Score:3, Funny)
Bieber is a lesbian, not a pedophile, at least not that we know of.
Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! (Score:4, Funny)
CD: 650 MB
DVD: 4.7-8.5 GB (7-13x CD)
Blu-Ray: 25-50 GB (6x DVD)
1 PB is 20,000x Blu-Ray.
One of these things is not like the others.
Yup, and it's Blu-Ray. Almost as many letters as the other three combined, plus it uses vowels!
Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! (Score:5, Funny)
Magic.
Re:Optical density, schmoptical schmensity! (Score:5, Funny)
"If I've RTFA correctly, ..."
(gasp) an actual, genuine AR, don't frighten him, they are very rare.