Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 02:41:54 09/29/04
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On September 29, 2004 at 05:19:52, Tony Petters wrote: >http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18719 > >One terabyte optical disk developed > >But what to store on it? > > >By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 28 September 2004, 08:20 > >BOFFINS AND boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical >disk that can store a terabyte of data. > >The Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods)technology is expected to be released >towards the end of 2010-155 for the home market, if the boffinettes and boffins >can find backers. > >The Imperial researchers estimate that MODS disks would cost the same to >manufacture as an ordinary DVD and will be backwards compatible with existing >optical formats. > >The technology works by using asymmetric "pits" that contain a "step" angled in >332 different ways on which the binary data "sits". > >All very clever indeed, but reporters trying to work out what you do with 1TB of >data seem to have fallen short of good ideas. > >One report said that it allowed you to store every episode of ancient cartoon >"The Simpsons", another pointed out that a single layer could record the entire >Lord of the Rings Trilogy 13 times. > >One reporter scarily suggested you could put every episode of a defunct >television programme called "Friends" on a single side. > >But we point out that would probably break most weapons proliferation deals >within the Federation and would likely warp the space time continuum, wherever >that be found, if indeed it exists. This will put a terrabyte of data on a space the size of your little fingernail: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=(battelle+AND+endres)&OS=battelle+AND+endres&RS=(battelle+AND+endres) It is also possible to read the whole she-bang at once using a large array of CCDs (none of that "serial" stuff).
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