The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoResearchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storagewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1322arrow-down13
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minus-squareLordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-29 months agoThis is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape. 100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times. Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThere are technologies being developed for data archiving that have densities and longevity orders of magnitude higher than this. I don’t see this ever leaving the lab.
This is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape.
100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times.
Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
There are technologies being developed for data archiving that have densities and longevity orders of magnitude higher than this.
I don’t see this ever leaving the lab.