TDK introduces 1TB optical disc

[chief]

Terabyte hard drives are getting to be old hat… but what about removable media that can store 1Tb of data? It looks like it’s on the way. TDK showed off a 1TB optical disc at Ceatec in Japan last week,

The disc has 16 recording layers, each storing 32GB per side for a total of 1024GB of storage capacity.

Blu-ray discs, by comparison, can handle about 25GB to 50GB.

Unfortunately, TDK’s new discs are about 2-3 times thicker than a Blu-ray disc, which can make them difficult to read using existing disc drives. If and when the company overcomes that problem we could start to see ridiculously high capacity optical discs hit the streets — if people still use removable storage at that point.

 

[ipodouch]

how long would it take to burn something the size of say 500gb?

 

[charanpreetsingh1984]

wow great ...............

 

[ลgǝи†.47]

how long would it take to burn something the size of say 500gb?

thats was my second question and first one was

how thick is that going to be? ( 3 times the thickness of blue ray)

500 gb if you have to copy on Harddrive to harddrive via SATA will end up taking your 3-4 hours

 

[Bgrewal]

what the heck would you need 1tb disc for? backing up your massive porn collection? only thing i can think of is backups on a server maybe.

 

[ลgǝи†.47]

what the heck would you need 1tb disc for? backing up your massive porn collection? only thing i can think of is backups on a server maybe.

better ask all the -|- asians they made it for a reason