TDK Reveals 1TB Optical Disc; Blu-ray Frowns

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]cbrownx88[/nom]Disc's are out of date though...give me a flash drive[/citation]
Yes, lord knows I want to back up 1TB of data on ultra expensive flash drive(s)... to ultra expensive flash drive(s).
I need to borrow the money tree Congress is using!

This technology is OBVIOUSLY not meant to replace flash, or even conventional HDDs. It's an evolution of blu-ray.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]ikefu[/nom]Today we have reached a new milestone! We have a disk with enough space to backup the entirety of everything stored in the human brain!We began our tests with the cast of Jersey Shore and sadly found we only needed 2 floppy disks...[/citation]
I bet they were 5.25" floppies, really old ones. Not 1.2s, not 720s, but 360KB per disk!

 

[eddieroolz]

1TB on a disc...that's more than my in-service hard drives put together. Even if the disc is $20 apiece it would still be economical.

 

[megamanx00]

That's pretty cool

 

[HaakonXCI]

My entire HDD... on a disc.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Sweet, larger than my HDD, and I'll be able to store and categorize my data easier. Anything I'm not using at the moment get's stored on a disc.

 

[dimar]

Hope it gets released soon, so I can replace all my movies and series with 8K Ultra HD remasters...

 

[jsc]

"The company added that the new disc's symbol error rate for reading data was low enough for commercialization (from 1 x 10-5 to 1 x 10-4) and would be ideal for broadcasting services, backing up data, and recording multimedia at home."

That seems like a pretty high error rate for backup media unless you resort to some kind of error correction.

 

[alyoshka]

And how do you stop it from getting scratched.......???
That's a pretty easy way to loose 1TB of data.....

 

[jj463rd]

It's perfect for saving video collections especially HD video.
Looking forward to it.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]ikefu[/nom]Today we have reached a new milestone! We have a disk with enough space to backup the entirety of everything stored in the human brain!We began our tests with the cast of Jersey Shore and sadly found we only needed 2 floppy disks...[/citation]
[citation][nom]ikefu[/nom]Today we have reached a new milestone! We have a disk with enough space to backup the entirety of everything stored in the human brain!We began our tests with the cast of Jersey Shore and sadly found we only needed 2 floppy disks...[/citation]

Which one? The 3 1/2", the 5 1/4" or the 8"? I'll just assume the 8".

 

[Deleted member 410608]

I smell a Sony PS4.

 

[TheWhiteRose000]

Just after I bought a bluray burner too...
D:

 

[guardianangel42]

[citation][nom]AlexTheBlue[/nom]Yes, lord knows I want to back up 1TB of data on ultra expensive flash drive(s)... to ultra expensive flash drive(s). I need to borrow the money tree Congress is using!This technology is OBVIOUSLY not meant to replace flash, or even conventional HDDs. It's an evolution of blu-ray.[/citation]

And BluRay sucks. The read/write times are ridiculous and the drives are really expensive. There is no practical way to use this disc unless the write speed is close to or surpassing that of CDs. 48x+ is what I say would be the minimum write speed necessary for this to ever be practical.

 

[Guest]

I bet they were 5.25" floppies, really old ones. Not 1.2s, not 720s, but 360KB per disk!

Actually, the really old ones were 90K. I remember upgrading to a Northstar with its new double density floyys at 180K per disk. Storage space without limits!!!!

 

[LePhuronn]

[citation][nom]guardianangel42[/nom]There is no practical way to use this disc unless the write speed is close to or surpassing that of CDs. 48x+ is what I say would be the minimum write speed necessary for this to ever be practical.[/citation]

Um, they are.

1x Blu-Ray is defined as 36Mbps (4.5 MB/sec), 48x CD-ROM is 7,200 KB/sec, so your standard 2x Blu-Ray burn is around 2 MB per second faster than a 48x CD-R burn.

 

[Wheat_Thins]

[citation][nom]alyoshka[/nom]And how do you stop it from getting scratched.......???That's a pretty easy way to loose 1TB of data.....[/citation]

It uses durabis coating just like any other bluray which makes it practically impossible to scratch. You can watch you tube videos of people grinding the discs into the pavement and still no scratches due to the armor like coating they put on blurays.

 

[Wheat_Thins]

[citation][nom]guardianangel42[/nom]And BluRay sucks. The read/write times are ridiculous and the drives are really expensive. There is no practical way to use this disc unless the write speed is close to or surpassing that of CDs. 48x+ is what I say would be the minimum write speed necessary for this to ever be practical.[/citation]

You pwned yourself with your own ignorance.

 

[Dkz]

Yeah, wait until bluray becomes as cheaper as DVDs then we'll talk about business

 

[LePhuronn]

[citation][nom]Dkz[/nom]Yeah, wait until bluray becomes as cheaper as DVDs then we'll talk about business[/citation]

So see you in about 6 months then?