300 Gb Discs (like Normal Cd's) Storage

[keysmaker 0]

OmG!!! i got astounted when i noticed that Optware is designing a disc capable to store upto 300 GB, also file transfer rates are quick enough to burn the entire disc in less than 30 minutes!!!

But theres a small problem.... the reader drive too expensive: $2700and the writer drive...... much more expensive : $20,000, also each disc will cost $100

Check it out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/24/maxell_holo_storage/ and http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Edited February 26, 2006 by keysmaker (see edit history)

[amitojduggal 0]

these disks are very expensive, But a good choice for the future, 300 gb is a huge amount of space, file transfer rates are good too,I am looking forward to some of these, good post man, keep it up

[brainet 0]

someday 300 gb disc, will be not enough, to handle a games or aplication. coz it's technology, they keep developing something new, some thing awesome

[Albus Dumbledore 0]

they are expensive! but they are like tecnology as brianet said..after a year or more the price will continue to go down..if i remember right DVD players started at 150-200 dollars, and now adays you can buy them for 50-75 dollars..even a DVD VHS Combo..which i have i got for 65$ at walmart..so maybe someday i can afford to buy stuff like that :-D

[htdefiant 0]

Wow! Well, when prices come down, like they always do, that will be awesome. And, holographic disks are just plain cool.

Edited February 26, 2006 by htdefiant (see edit history)

[snipehw19 0]

I dont agreee with you "brainet" Because, has you can see game become bigger and bigger right..... But compression will be a factor along the way so we can keep the game Size at a reasonable File Size..... and i think that 300 GBDisc woulvd Been great but its also stupid at the same time... I'D say it is first made for teh Big Companies to make sure they dont lose big Datas in crucial moments and also for themm 3D movies to carry around files..... i Have a 200Gb SATA drive i think its way way enough so far for normal and andvanced consumers..... It's a gadget like teh DVD Burners and LCD screens no one wouldve bought at first really but now aday s it comes with most of our 500 to 600 $ computers... it might take a while ut im pretty sure this will come around at a decent price ......

[Arigato 0]

That's crazy, $20,000 for a writer? This is completely out of range for the average consumer. I'm curious to know why I haven't heard much about this new technology when the capacity is even greater than that of bluray and hd-dvd.

[William91 0]

I kind of don't think this is a good idea. Discs can start to lose data because of old age. Also its hard to keep a disc clean and not scratched up. You will eventually drop the disc and get scratches on your hundred dollar disc and won't be able to read some of your data or the disc may skip while playing music on your pc.Also if your wanting to transfer files to another persons computer, most people on this world are probably to poor to invest in something like that so they can read your files. Also in reply to the message saying that 300gb is not enough storage in the future, 300gb would probably last long enough for your wholoe life, think about it, world of warcraft is a very large game and its about 3 gb large. So you could fit world of warcraft onto this disc 100 times. They had the right idea but I would not trust putting all my precious data onto one disc and hoping it doesn't mess up.

[bladeron 0]

lol, i think 300 gb is way too muchand i totally agree with William91, its difficult to use and maintain discs for a longer time and no one will risk taking backup of thier data on a cdi would prefer a 300gb hdd than a cd which will also cost less that the cd with capacity of 300gbnevertheless, its an amazing development!!

[Sprnknwn 0]

I get really overwhelmed by technology advances. So much info... Maybe too expensive nowadays, but wait a couple of years and who knows, maybe each one of us have one of these units.

[selim 0]

There are lots of interesting pints being raised.I'm sure in the future this technology will become cheaper. Just like hwo CD wrtiting and the DVD writing hardware and software started off expensive when it first came out but now can easily be picked up for less than ?100.It's true that CDs scratch easily and do tend to snap but I'm sure that with discs with that much capacity they will develop a way of protecting them, or have discs made from a new substance that isn't prone to scratching or breaking under light pressures.And I'm sure in the future we'll need all the capacity we can get. I remember when hard-drives were 5gigs and software would only take up about 200megs - 500megs. Now a single game could fill that whole hard drive up and still would need more space. True it only seems to be games that require so much space and with the new generation of graphics, audio technology and physics the amount of game data is only going to increase. Although I guess 300Gb is a bit overkill but I'm sure sometime in the future that about of space will seem like nothing.Although these things could probably be used for security. Having one disc to store all the security camera recordings for a day would make it easier to store than say 200 DVDs of recordings. Or making they can be used to store recordings from those satelites that are scanning space for extraterrestial signals or storing data produced by super computers. Whatever the case is I doubt these things will be put into public for a decade or more but they probably are useful to big companies who need to store large amounts of data quicklyh and easily.

[believer 0]

being fairly new product in the market this will understandably be expensive, what's good here is that we are seeing the finish product already which means in the near future once more and more manufacturer embraces this technology this will become cheaper and cheaper which in the long run will be good for all the consumers.

[Cerebral Stasis 0]

There are lots of interesting pints being raised.

 

I'll drink to that.

 

In order for a game to take up 300 Gb, there would have to be some kind of revolutionary new content technology that would be able to fill it. Currently, games are around 3Gb to 5Gb and take years to make (modelling and texturing takes a long time). Unless there is some kind of technology that can automatically create content for games, production time, but creating so much content that it would take some 300Gb, game developers will never spend the 20-some years of content creation it would take to make a 300Gb game. Look at the detail in upcoming games such as Oblivion, which will probably be around 5Gb or so, and it's only been in production for a few years.

 

Now, if something like the holodecks seen in Star Trek were created (which I doubt), then the detail and amount of data required may make 300Gb disks necessary, but until then, these disks are just a monument; they are not practically useful by today's standards (unless one wants to backup a gigantic database).

[keysmaker 0]

take years to make (modelling and texturing takes a long time)

Let's make a bet: in 1989 Test driver just sized 300KB ---- [ 10 years later ] -----> Need for speed high stakes (road challenge) sized like 300 Mb in hard disc installation ------[ 6 years later ] ------> Need for speed most wanted, 3 GB of HD space, ...... that means that in less than 6 years its quite possible to found games of 30-45 GB so, in 15 years 300 GB will be insufficient..... LOL!!! technology is on its best moments,!!!

[Sla6 0]

I like them ... nice thing ... but I would prefer 500 Hard drive than those cds :