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  • Nanoscale light tricks promise huge DVD storage

    05/26/2005 10:44:36 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 30 replies · 1,170+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 5/25/05 | Will Knight
    The tantalising prospect of DVDs capable of holding almost a terabyte of data - or several hundred movies - has been presented in a patent issued to US storage company Iomega. The US patent describes a disc that could store 40 to 100 times more information that a conventional DVD, using more nanometre-scale sloped ridges to diffract light. US patent number 6879556 - entitled "Method and Apparatus for Optical Data Storage" - was issued to Iomega on April 12 2005. Conventional DVDs store information in the form of ridges and depressions, each several hundred nanometres wide. These correspond to bits...
  • Iomega aiming for 800GB DVDs

    05/25/2005 2:32:12 PM PDT · by Panerai · 45 replies · 1,174+ views
    Cnet ^ | 05/25/2005 | Richard Shim
    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...