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[Insane Metal]

Scientists just developed a 200,000GB optical disc that could replace Blu-rays

This one optical disc could store every Blu-ray in your collection

www.tomsguide.com

We love 4K Blu-rays, but scientists are on the verge of a breakthrough for optical media: A research team from Shanghai just published a research paper on Nature that explains how we can use “3D nanoscale” storage to store 200,000GB (200TB or 1.6 petabytes) on one disc.

The technology uses a light-sensitive material called AIE-DDPR and two different optical lasers — one blue laser with a 480nm wavelength and one orange laser with a 592nm wavelength — to read the data stored on the disc. Writing data to the disc requires a green 515-nanometer laser as well as a red 639-nm laser.

While traditional storage techniques use two dimensions, the new optical technology uses three and can have up to 100 layers that could be read — that equates to a 4,000-fold increase over the 3-layer, 100GB limit that Blu-ray discs currently have.

Best of all, the scientists say that current disc fabrication plants could be used for the new technology, and a blank disc could be created in around six minutes.

Absolutely nuts. One disc to save all your porn!

 

[AJUMP23]

Trust the science. No chance.

 

[jshackles]

Neat, I'm sure they'll be available commercially in about 15 years

 

[INC]

What's the transfer rate.....

 

[FunkMiller]

Finally, something where I can store at least a quarter of all of my midget and scat porn.

 

[mitch1971]

The next time we'll hear about this technology will be in about 20 years when someone posts about it, asking whatever happened to that 200TB disc they were developing?

 

[Burning Blade]

Remember when Blu-ray was going to allow entire series on one disc!? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Trust the science. No chance.

What do you mean?

 

[blastprocessor]

Looking forward to this drive on PS6 and terabytes of streaming textures.

 

[AJUMP23]

What do you mean?

Just making a weak science COVID joke.


Also science sucks. I am going back to sorcery and alchemy.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Just making a weak science COVID joke.


Also science sucks. I am going back to sorcery and alchemy.

Nah I'm a big fan of science just not the science that SJWs and Feminazis and whatever science the far religious right promote

But this is getting off topic

As for this news article, I'm hoping they are able to be make DVD/BLURAY/HOLO/Carts that can hold more than 200 TB in the future.

I'm not a fan of all digital/steaming Future they are trying to push on us

 

[AJUMP23]

Nah I'm a big fan of science just not the science that SJWs and Feminazis and whatever science the far religious right promote

But this is getting off topic

As for this news article, I'm hoping they are able to be make DVD/BLURAY/HOLO/Carts that can hold more than 200 TB in the future.

I'm not a fan of all digital/steaming Future they are trying to push on us

I am actually excited about this super dense storage.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I am actually excited about this super dense storage.

I am too

 

[AJUMP23]

I am too

We are nerds.

 

[Jsisto]

Absolutely nuts. One disc to save all your porn!

Says you.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

We are nerds.

Yes we are

I'm just thinking what technology will look like 20 years from now

 

[Mistake]

*scratch*
50TB disappears

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

*scratch*
50TB disappears

This is why I'm hoping Cart storage sizes increases in the future where they are cheap to produce

Like a Switch Cartridge that holds 200 to 400 TB but knowing how slow the progress on that cart technology is I would expect that to happen in at least 40 years unless some big breakthrough comes out that makes it possible in 20 years lol

 

[BearNecessity]

If manufacturing is anything like DVD and blu-ray, then anything after 3-4 layers probably isnt viable since yields dramatically go down after each layer.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Finally I can keep all my porn in one place.

 

[DetectiveBananas]

Would rather have the hoverboards we were promised in 2015.

 

[Pejo]

What are the read/write times though? Same as current BluRay?

 

[Kilau]

Would rather have the hoverboards we were promised in 2015.

Did you forget?!

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Finally I can keep all my porn in one place.

Disc titled 'Office Renovation Project'

 

[EverydayBeast]

VHS to DVD was a big change.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Disc titled 'Office Renovation Project'

"Game of Thrones Series Finale"


Nobody would ever watch it.

 

[Husky]

I really fucking hope this turns out to be legit. I'd love to have better-than-DCP-quality films playable in home theaters. What would this technology mean for internal storage?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I really fucking hope this turns out to be legit. I'd love to have better-than-DCP-quality films playable in home theaters. What would this technology mean for internal storage?

Same but it's gonna to be awhile till it cheap to buy for consumers

 

[Raonak]

Physical Media will have the last laugh!

 

[Dr.Morris79]

'Phew, finally finished burning my 200TB disc, finally, all of my photos, music and films on one disc!'

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I wonder how fast it needs to rotate to transfer 200 TB

 

[Toots]

Just making a weak science COVID joke.


Also science sucks. I am going back to sorcery and alchemy.

You're right science sucks and can turn you into a titan

 

[Drew1440]

Still waiting for the Holographic Versatile Disc to come to market, 6TB of storage.

 

[Kadve]

Still waiting for the Holographic Versatile Disc to come to market, 6TB of storage.

Was about to say the same. Read/Write time on optical media is too slow for consumers nowadays. And i doubt proffesional applications are gonna adopt these either when 300TB+ Magnetic tape cartridges already exists.

IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge

Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density.

arstechnica.com

Still. With HDD's seemingly flatlininig at around 8TB and SSD's still being way expensive at those sizes. Would be nice to have something like that.

 

[Insane Metal]

What's the transfer rate.....

10MB/s



Jk

 

[killatopak]

I'll need about 5 to store all my porn.

 

[jufonuk]

Looking forward to this drive on PS6 and terabytes of streaming textures.

And day one patches and updates.

 

[DGrayson]

I need this for my Plex server.

 

[YCoCg]

Remember when Blu-ray was going to allow entire series on one disc!? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

What quality are we talking? How long of a show? For example, sticking to DVD quality then you could fit all of the great series of Red Dwarf (Series 1-6) on a dual layer 50GB Blu-ray.

 

[AJUMP23]

I need this for my Plex server.

That 4K content DTS or Dolby Audio is a data hog.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Reminds me of the optical fibre multiplexing that gained magnitudes more bandwidth for our Internet pipes globally.

Wavelength-division multiplexing - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Futaleufu]

200TB should be good enough for a lossless 4K release of a film

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I'd be curious to see how much they estimate the cost of one of these discs to be at this point. I'm guessing $1000 per TB.

I find it interesting seeing the costs come down over time for storage media.

 

[violence]

This will be the only way to watch Mean Girls.

 

[BlackTron]

The ultimate game ISO disc doesn't exis--

 

[b0uncyfr0]

Here i thought disc's were done for..

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Finally I can keep all my porn in one place.

 

[nani17]

When you can now make 40 mins long 8k cutscenes for the PS6

 

[The Skull]

So an average AAA day 1 patch?

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Games will find a way to fill it up