Store 1,000 TB on a DVD

yes you read it right, soon you'll be able to store 1,000 TB on a single DVD; thats equivalent to 50,000 full HD movies!

Our work will greatly impact the development of super-compact devices as well as nanoscience and nanotechnology research.

The exceptional penetration feature of light beams allow for 3D recording or fabrication, which can dramatically increase the data storage – the number of dots – on a single optical device.

The technique is also cost-effective and portable, as only conventional optical and laser elements are used, and allows for the development of optical data storage with long life and low energy consumption, which could be an ideal platform for a Big Data centre.

As the rate of information generated worldwide continues to accelerate, the aim of more storage capacity in compact devices will continue. Our breakthrough has put that target within our reach.

When this technique is publically available, I really hope Digit would still supply 2 or 3 DVDs

Source: More data storage? Here's how to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD

Nice.

Nice.

does it work?? not tested yet. Any Pilots here?

checked the link, nothing too interesting or usable here.

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What about read/write speed won't it take forever to copy even 1 TB ?

do read the comments.

3D optical data storage was an old tech, but it didn't developed as much as the magnetic storage devices. when people moved to magnetic flash storage devices, manufacturers ditched researches on optical technology. Its glad to see that some are actually interested in bringing out this technology to the masses :-o

A single scratch and the entire 1000 tb gone to waste.. no thx from my side.. Online backup FTW

Nerevarine said:
A single scratch and the entire 1000 tb gone to waste.. no thx from my side.. Online backup FTW

One of the guy said in thecomments:

With a petabyte to play with you could probably burn the same data multiple times in different CD sectors and lose 90% of the disk to scratches while still maintaining data integrity. 10% of the surface is still 100 terabytes!

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And they say disks are dead.

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We can store entire movies ever released, in few DVDs.

This is going to take a long time.How many people are using Blu-ray discs as of now?

1000TB in DVD..i won't call it a DVD...it should be named higher than BluRay
may be Ultra Ray :-D

Nanducob said:
This is going to take a long time.How many people are using Blu-ray discs as of now?

This tech is not developed yet, its being worked on. ANd its not aimed at consumers, but more towards data center guys.

I'm still don't viewed any bluray disk and any hd disk in my town and now this is wt ...... :-(

Nerevarine said:
A single scratch and the entire 1000 tb gone to waste.. no thx from my side.. Online backup FTW

nobody is going to mishandle a 1000 TB disc like a Rs 10 DVD :lol:

i think Holographic Data Storage would have been an even bigger tech from data storage standpoint, if there were ample investors.

anirbandd said:
i think Holographic Data Storage would be an even bigger tech from data storage standpoint.

Google "DNA data storage".

anirbandd said:
i think Holographic Data Storage would be an even bigger tech from data storage standpoint.

Google "DNA data storage".

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Wa...1000TB, awesome.

Hope speeds are better than normal DVDs else it would take ages to burn a DVD.

^GOOD Point

Even with Sata 6 GBPS speeds, this will take ages to cover entire DVDs

Zangetsu said:
1000TB in DVD..i won't call it a DVD...it should be named higher than BluRay
may be Ultra Ray

Yep right...
UV VIBGYOR IR
so it will be called UltraViolet Disc :-D

But i don't think, it will be out for personal use.
It will be like the "Supercomputers" of Storage media, only to be used by big organizations/companies.

Gearbox said:
But i don't think, it will be out for personal use.
It will be like the "Supercomputers" of Storage media, only to be used by big organizations/companies.

I don't think so but it is gonna have fate of Blu-ray discs.. :yaaawwn:

Companies should develop actual mainstream things instead of these things.. Its been too long since Blu ray has released and it's cost/GB is waaay more than what it should be

Nerevarine said:
Companies should develop actual mainstream things instead of these things.. Its been too long since Blu ray has released and it's cost/GB is waaay more than what it should be

Yeah something Like Heat assisted Magnetic Recording Heat-assisted magnetic recording - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HAMR could increase the limit of magnetic recording by more than a factor of 100. This could result in storage capacities as great as 50 terabits per square inch.

As of 2007, Seagate believed it could produce 300 terabit (37.5 terabyte) Hard disk drives using HAMR technology.[5] Some news sites erroneously reported that Seagate would launch a 300 TB HDD by 2010. Seagate responded to this news stating that 50 terabit per-square-inch density is well past the 2010 timeframe and that this may also involve a combination of Bit Patterned Media.[6]
As of early 2009 Seagate is still working on HAMR and has achieved 250 Gb per square inch. This was half of the density achieved via perpendicular recording at that time.[7]
At the end of 2010 the HDD industry was predicting the next technology change in the 2014-2015 time period.[8]
In March 2012 Seagate became the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit per square inch using HAMR technology.[9]

This looks promising. But I would still like to see flash technology becomming dirt cheap to make cheaper ssd's available. With the two technologies developing at a pace, I believe hybrid drives are the future.

^^What looks promising ??
HAMR ??
It would be ultimate soln for mega size backups...