Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc 261
CWmike writes "Start-up Millenniata and LG plan to soon release a new optical disc and read/write player that will store movies, photos or any other data forever. The data can be accessed using any current DVD or Blu-ray player. The M-Disc can be dipped in liquid nitrogen and then boiling water without harming it. It also has a Defense Department study (PDF) backing up the resiliency of its product compared with other leading optical disc competitors. The company would not disclose what material is used to produce the optical discs, referring to it only as a 'natural' substance that is 'stone-like.' Like DVDs and Blu-ray discs, the M-Disc platters are made up of multiple layers of material. But there is no reflective, or die, layer. Instead, during the recording process a laser 'etches' pits onto the substrate material."
What? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah ... /me rushes out and buys one tonight at Best Buy because, you know, the last fourteen computers, MP3 players and PDAs i've owned all died in the vats of liquid nitrogen around my house - for some stupid reason I keep dropping stuff in those.
Bedrock: (Score:5, Funny)
I think this is how Fred Flintstone's instant camera worked.
I knew it! (Score:5, Funny)
Stonehenge is a data center! I wonder if they're hiring?
It's durable... (Score:5, Funny)
*chinkchink. pause. chink. pause. chinkchink. *
Re:Bedrock: (Score:5, Funny)
M-Disc
Meet the M-Disc
It's modern stone-age data storage, you need
M-Disc
Meet the M-Disc
It will store your data till the human race is history
Let's write the data on a piece of stone-like strata
Thanks to the guys at Millenniata
When you use the M-Disk
Your data will last a life time
Even more than a life time
Your data will last a long ass time!
Is my boredom showing?
Re:It's durable... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Immortal Reader As Well (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This story certainly has immortality (Score:3, Funny)
The "die" layer must be why (Score:5, Funny)
... the CD/DVD/BD discs don't last. If only they'd used a dye layer instead.
Re:Immortal Reader As Well (Score:3, Funny)
I would hope in 2,000 years your average archaeologist would have the tools to scan the disk at a molecular level and have an AI extract any important information based on historical archives of data formats.
"Esteemed Instructor. I have found a stone disk from 2000 years ago, in the diggings."
"Have you indeed? Is it intact?"
"Yes, Esteemed Instructor. I have taken the liberty of scanning the disk at the molecular level, and I have had my AI extract the information based on the historical archives of known data formats."
"And what have you found?"
"This! [dafk.net]"
Re:Immortal Reader As Well (Score:5, Funny)
Archaeologist: It appears the ancients worshipped a god known only as "RFC", whose commandments were numbereed consecutively. There is some confusion as to whether these were taken as literal commandments or spiritual allegories; while some seem to dictate simple enough standards for a (primitive) digital society, a few seem distinctly implausible, involving e.g. using pigeons for data transfer; some researchers contend these were wholy allegorical, while others suggest these were actual ceremonies carried out at religious festivals known as "cons".
Re:Just be careful... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Immortal Reader As Well (Score:4, Funny)
But if we're talking movie DVDs, you've got CSS to deal with. That would probably ensure that none of our pop-culture survives millennia. Thank god...
Re:Bedrock: (Score:4, Funny)
I'm still waiting for beaver shots of Betty.
Re:Bedrock: (Score:4, Funny)
Would that be better than a Betty shot of Beaver? "Ward... don't you think you were a little hard on the Beav last night?"