Comments on: Tiny huge 1TB optical disc

By: James. Braselton

James. Braselton — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:03:41 +0000

hi. There. I. Can't. Wait. 160. Terabyte. Game. And. Ssd. At. 160. Times. Faster. Then. Light. Speed

By: duh

duh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:46:27 +0000

if it takes >4min to write 4GB onto pendrive it would require 27 days to make 10 000 copies for the market. Get real ppl.

By: duh

duh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:43:10 +0000

They dont care about speed YOU can record on this disk. When cd or dvd came out nobody was thinking about personal recorders. Those cd-s are designed to be pressed, all data at fraction of a second!
And that why movies will not be distibuted on pendrives. It takes hundrets of seconds to write to pendrive, while to dvd/blue ray it takes fraction of a second to press 20 GB.

By: doe

doe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:58:50 +0000

i dont think this wuld be jused by privat consumers, not right away enyway, but take like cameras. they are all over the place now and storing all the video in and around one building is a enormus amount of space needed, one of thes discs culd hold real time video (not the one frame every sek as ther is in meny places now) of up to 4 cameras for weeks, the burning speed do not becom a factor in that case as it wuld take the same amount of time recording the disk. ofc, this may not be a good thing depending on how you look at it! (the number of cameras wuld skyrocket
oh, and to the guy talking about storage devices with braincells in them, i wuld not want one of those! you save somthing inportant and 10 min later you try to find it and you get ”ERROR, WAS WATCHING PORN AND WAS NOT PAYING ATENTION AT THE TIME YOU SAVED THAT!”
thers somthing wrong with your internet and you get, ”Good bye cruel world! format:/c” … but it culd be worse, what if the braincells came from a woman! you get home from a long day of work, begg your wife for 45min for sex befor you give up and go to surf the web for porn, and you end up spending 45min begging the pc to give you internet porn befor you give up and go to bed…
and your calculator show 43 x 92 is ”thats like 1000 or somthing!”

By: Edyy

Edyy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:58:03 +0000

@84 A romanian invented the basic principal for the 10 TB hyper – CD, I`m so proud

By: bojangles

bojangles — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:57:33 +0000

@92 – if nearly your entire collection of CD and DVD media is unreadable after just a couple of years, there is no other excuse except for poor storage and/or handling conditions.

To those expressing concerns about a single scratch having a major impact on the disc, it is appropriate to be concerned but there are certainly solutions. One is to use a hard coating on the discs, coatings exist already for some optical media that makes scratches a non-issue except under very rough handling, in which case you have earned the right to lose that data. Another option is enclosing them similar to older DVD-RAM discs or floppy discs – not the most elegant answer and it increases costs, but it’s certainly one solution.

To all of the comments about burning speeds, sure it’s not going to match a good Hard Drive for read/write speeds, but they’re certainly not slow. Why anyone is thinking in terms of time to burn a full disc, I don’t really understand. Think simply in terms of data rate, a disc as large as 1TB is not something that will commonly be burned fully in one step, it will more often be filled incrementally/multi-session/packet/etc. over time such as a hard drive. Think of it as something like a USB 2.0 HD, you can expect performance somewhere near that or better. Being rewriteable should be a given IMO for such a large medium, so hopefully that’s the case.

By: too

too — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:05:28 +0000

Well, Cheyenne Mountain Complex finally revealed Ancient’s crystals technology. Just about time.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:12:08 +0000

While they’re always working to increase the storage capacity of optical formats, do any of these companies put any effort into making the burning process more reliable?

Practically every DVD I’ve ever burned has given me trouble reading back the data on the same drive. Some have real errors, but most make the drive “grind” 5-6 times before the speed drops down and it’s able to finish reading the file. CD burning used to fail about 5% of the time.

By: costa200

costa200 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:25 +0000

basically having your data in a single disk then your kiddie brother uses it as a frisbee…

By: jon

jon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:24:52 +0000

Funniest comment #99.

haha!! Class – come and scratch my 22,000 movies with one single strike!

By: GhostGum

GhostGum — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:12:09 +0000

didnt read most the comments, but as #8ish says, just more data to loose when the disc failes & corrupts… i want data security more than more storage.

By: hfghdfgh

hfghdfgh — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:21:58 +0000

Who cares about discs? Discs are old now. Leave them for the dinosaurs like Sony.

By: Dj BooSt

Dj BooSt — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:21:44 +0000

it must take several days to burn 1000gb lol

By: cw

cw — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:13:00 +0000

Old technology thats on the downhill.
Really,who wants to have this one scratched?
Imagine all the problems.
Im using hd:s instead,much faster..

By: Playos

Playos — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:43:33 +0000

The write speeds will be IDENTICAL to the speeds found on your current DVD. I’ve yet to see a burner that does multiple layers in the same pass…

Napkin Math:
Average 1x burn time… for a CD or DVD = 1 hour per layer
The burner would have to write: 10 layers @ 2x
JUST TO BURN A DISC IN ABOUT A DAY… @ 1 layer that works over 4 days

SSD Hard Drives have just now emerged, and already are comming into afforable cost ranges.

250GB SSD for whats downloading/playing… long term storage on your 2TB RAID 5 NAS (with smarter spin down controls to extend the life of your drives, but when a 1TB drive costs about $80 do you really care?)… “buy” your content with downloading (which were already doing)… thats what it will look like in 2010.

Why do we need optical again? oh ya to install an OS… kind of like how I only need a floppy drive to install a RAID driver