What type of port will Blue Disk use.

[Jeffl]

what i am saying is like in dvd internal drives you can do serial ata or ide, will you be able for internal to use serial ata!

[thunderhawk]

well, theres no information about that question yet, as far as i know...

it will probably be serial ata, unless there comes a new standard

[Jeffl]

serial ata 2 lol

[thunderhawk]

Originally Posted by Jeffl

serial ata 2 lol

Yeah, who knows...

(look what happend to the USB standard :wink

[Welkie]

Look what happend to Circular Discs in general...

700MB (CDs)...
4.9GB (DVDs)...
50GB (BDs)...

Whats next? 500GB?! Technology never ceases to amaze me. :O

[Rob]

Sony has 4 layer 100GB Blu-Ray discs ready for release 2007, (or so they claim), plus 8 layer 200GB in development. Not sure whether there's a limit to the number of layers!? Then there's a holgraphic disc in development with 1 Terabyte or 1,024GB. After that there's the Collosal disc that theoretically can contain up to 1.5 Exabytes (or more) on one 3.5" disc. Information is stored 3 dimensionally at nano level. God knows how far away that is though. Click on the link below.

http://www.colossalstorage.net/home_diskdrive.htm

[Welkie]

God knows when the money-obsessed nerds will stop letting us take advantage of them. :P

Exabytes... shit, I remember when a 80GB (now my little brother's computer's harddrive size) seemed "colossal". Now the "colassal" is one and half MILLION GB!!!

...sweet.

[Rob]

1.5 Exabytes = 1536 Petabytes = 1,572,865 Terabytes, (1TB = 1,024 GB), So:

1.5 Exabytes = 1,610,613,760GB (1.61 billion GB).

Apparantly 5 Exabytes of info is created worldwide every year. That's just under 4 discs. Imagine the potential for this disc.

[Welkie]

*cough*Rediculous*cough* (With a side of waste of money and time.) :roll:

[Rob]

Originally Posted by Welkie

*cough*Rediculous*cough* (With a side of waste of money and time.) :roll:

Why exactly? It's all theoretical at the moment I would guess anyway. They're just suggesting the potential for the concept. That's all. :?:

[3d]

Could holography end tape's dominance?

http://www.techworld.com/storage/fea...featureid=1120


Storage gets serious in 2005
Hard drives aren't keeping up with today's data needs. Today's large 300 and 400 gigabyte (GB) hard drives are easily filled to capacity by digital photos, increasingly large audio files, and video. Some computer users attempt to cope with the problem by stuffing multiple hard drives into their PCs. But there is a limit to the number of hard drives a PC can operate and many are finding the 4.7 gigabyte DVD is just not large enough.

Present day storage technology CAN NOT keep pace with the data storage demands of the world's appetite !

300 Million Hard Drives and 235 Million Optical drives were produced in 2004.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizf.../02/2003217729

I have never seen storage demands plateau in 30 years and keeps growing at 30% every 60 months.

[Rob]

Had seen pictures of optwares holographic disc and the Collosal disc. Wasn't aware of the other 2. Was interested to read the post on the micro cell batterys to come out 2005 initially, 2008 properly. Imagine a laptop where the battery lasted a week rather than a few hours! People could finally stop complaining about the PSP's short batter life.

[Welkie]

I see now. What I meant though is that the average consumer doesn't quite need 200GB Optical Discs. Thats almost twice as large as my 120GB harddrive! But I would like to eventually get one for the archiving of perminant data.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by Welkie

I see now. What I meant though is that the average consumer doesn't quite need 200GB Optical Discs. Thats almost twice as large as my 120GB harddrive! But I would like to eventually get one for the archiving of perminant data.

Imagine in the future when BB connections are quick enough, a time where you don't buy digital media on discs anymore. Instead you download all content directly onto a high capacity disc. Films, music, magazines...anything really. Blu-Ray discs will contain up to 50GB of space providing just 4.5 hrs worth of hi-def programming. Your 120GB HDD would be filled in no time. Now imagine you have a 10TB disc which allows you to store all your hi-def music, tv, film etc without the chance of it filling up. Plus access and transfer speeds should be far in excess of current hardware. Convergence of technologies into the one box seems like the future to me. It makes sense that one disc does it all. Rather than loads of incompatible storage mediums.

[Welkie]

Very good point. Technology advances faster than ever nowadays...

[Jamesont]

Just remember, there was once a time when

"640KB IS MORE THEN ANY USER COULD POSSIBLY NEED"
-Bill Gates

[Blackraven]

Holy shit.

Just when I realized that Sony developed a 1 GB memory stick and when I last heard about new Blu-ray discs that have an minimum of 25GB :shock: and a MAX of 200GB :shock: ,


I hear this latest "holographic" technology and the implementation of "nano" technology in optical media.

With more than a billion GB (I always thought 400 GB HDD was beyond my imagination), who knows how much data can be filled with such humongous capacity.

I mean, I can't even fill up my own 80 GB hard drive, now this!?


Plus, they also claim that the price per GB on their new storage media is even cheaper than the cost of GB on current storage media/devices (BD, HD-DVD, DVD, CD, current HDD, and almost everything).

And look at the other advantages (as they claim).



I just hope this thing won't be released on or before 2010, cause if it does, you can expect 200x more insanity in 2020.



The future is bright, yet scary and waaaaay unpredictable.

[thunderhawk]

Originally Posted by Blackraven

I mean, I can't even fill up my own 80 GB hard drive, now this!?

You're free space will soon be gone when more HD movies and pictures come out...

Also, don't forget the 64bit tech and...

I have a 40GB HDD and it always was more than 80% free space, until I started backing-up DVDs, then it was in 30 mins, only 1% :?