Egad! The dreaded Borg nanoprobes!
Posted on 05/25/2005 2:32:12 PM PDT by Panerai
Storage company Iomega is looking to increase the capacity of DVDs up to 100 times, meaning it could, conceivably, create 800GB discs.
The San Diego-based company announced on Tuesday that it had been issued a patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,879,556, which covers a method of encoding data on the surface of a DVD so more data--on the order of 40 to 100 times that of current capacities--can be stored. Current DVDs can hold up to about 8.5GB of data. Data transfer speeds would also jump five to 30 times, according to the company.
The technique uses reflective nano-structures to encode data on a multilevel format.
Iomega is looking to commercialize the procedure and is searching for partners to produce data storage devices, the company said.
The move would allow companies to significantly increase DVD capacity without having to transition to next-generation formats. Companies are already squabbling over two formats in development, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, and groups are working to establish their preferred format as the industry standard.
Increased capacity on discs is significant as the entertainment and broadcast industries move toward high-definition picture quality. That move will mean discs will have to get heftier to hold movies in high definition. Movies on DVD are a highly profitable business for entertainment companies.
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My first reaction was, "800 GB? What could you possibly need all that for?" but then I remembered when my late best friend upgraded his computer RAM from 4KB to 16KB, and realized I said the same thing then.
Egad! The dreaded Borg nanoprobes!
My first reaction was, "800 GB? What could you possibly need all that for?"
Give them two weeks, and the porn industry will find a way to use it for fun and profit.
newgeezer wrote:
Iomega will always be synonymous with proprietary, short-lived data storage solutions.
--Exactly.
That's a lot of porn!
Cool! I'll be able to watch all three extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trillogy without having to switch disks!
I can't wait!
Mark
To back up my SageTV system :^P I have over 122 episodes of Good Eats alone. I can't loose those!!! It's taken me a year to get that many (I'm missing 1 or 2).
You can store all the freeperettes pix on a single disk. Cool
And Microsoft will "swell" Windows so you STILL won't be able to do a full system backup, even with this much storage.
They test their products in an unusual manner. Rather than beta testing, the sell the product to consumers and let them find the problems ... of which there will be many.
A rule of thumb with Iomega products is never buy the first or second generation of an Iomega product. Sadly, by the time the third generation of an Iomega product is out, the market will have found better solutions at a cheaper price.
I know this from years of hard learned experience. My first Iomega product was their 5 mb vacuum cleaner like disk drive for the Mac.
Don't forget the "Click of Death".
I spent months trying to get my ZIP drive(s) to work. In the end, all of my drives AND all of my disks were trashed. By that time, 100MB was a JOKE.
Never again. Ever.
"Don't forget the "Click of Death". "
HaHa, I will never forget the click of death. Or the fact that if you carried your zip drive home or bumped it a little there was a good chance it would fail.
[but I am]......;-D
Add to that commercially successful.
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