The Picard Maneuver to [email protected] • 4 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-square42fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down13
arrow-up1289arrow-down1external-linkResearchers 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.comThe Picard Maneuver to [email protected] • 4 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-square@wildbus8979link1•edit-24 months ago*Some optical discs. Others not so much, it’s not an inevitability… M-DISC, introduced in 2009, has a rating with proper storage of one THOUSAND years. They are even readable and writable by most regular DVD/Blueray drives! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC I absolutely cannot wait for these new discs to be available!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•4 months agoThese aren’t going to be leaving the lab, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
minus-square@wildbus8979link-1•4 months agoI wouldn’t be so sure, LTO is big business. A niche market sure, but a multi-million dollar market nonetheless.
*Some optical discs. Others not so much, it’s not an inevitability… M-DISC, introduced in 2009, has a rating with proper storage of one THOUSAND years. They are even readable and writable by most regular DVD/Blueray drives!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
I absolutely cannot wait for these new discs to be available!
These aren’t going to be leaving the lab, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
I wouldn’t be so sure, LTO is big business. A niche market sure, but a multi-million dollar market nonetheless.