TDK's heavily stacked 320GB disc shows its nearly-clear face at CEATEC
By Darren Murph 
posted October 7th 2009 1:59AM
posted October 7th 2009 1:59AM
posted October 7th 2009 1:59AM
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For some reason, it's a little bit hard to believe
just like the moon landing...
close, but you're way off
just like butter....
Wow..! How many movies is that..??!! ;)
Do we really need yet another format? :/
It's still blu-ray I'm guessing o____O
IS IT STILL BLURAY???
it's bluray that will work with current layers, read the article
its RED-RAY
I dunno about you guys. But hey I'm buying what they're saying. Except, how long will it be until it is economically possible to produce more than just a FEW discs for the public? xD
we will get to use it in ~ 5 years time.
we just need the cost to come down drastically, but for archival purposes these are godsends.
indeed. this are perfect for archiving. although so is a hard drive. so I'm not going to be shocked if this is a case of 'we did it to prove it could be done' and that's all.
researchers are working on solid state drives and cards trying to reduce environmental impact though less plastic, more efficient production methods with less greenhouse gases etc. less consumer energy costs, less clutter, even less noise pollution.
this is creating a real race and optical might just lose in the end. likely take 4-5 years but it could take that long for a 320 GB disk to be practical for general use. so we'll see.
Wow! so much data can be stored on it. Guess how much the price will be?
er.. and the wiritings on TDK's box, is it Japanese or Korean? Or Chinese letterings?
@Redmunt The writing on the box is Japanese.
Would be cool if it had transparent printing for disc labeling.
Huh? It does. Can't you not see it?!
Excellent,
Now I can lose 320GB of archival data on one disc.
I'll stick with Raid-5 arrays for the time being.
Great, now I can lose 44MB of data on one Bernoulli cartridge.
I'll stick to 360KB single sided 5.25" floppies for the time being.
Why do they keep increasing the amount of data on a single CD instead of trying to reduce its physical size? Imagine how great it would be to have much smaller CD drives and how it'll affect the size and weight of our computers.
its called mini cd
the current ratio is 710:210 mb respectively for bigger sized to smaller sized CD,
thus coming form this the new gen mini CDs will be able to hold approximately 94.67 GB of data
and its called external cd-drives
soon 2 b used by all laptop manufacturers to decrease physical size/weight of laptop and to save $$
The problem with mini-CDs is that they're not compatible with many products so it's not what I was referring to. I claim that manufactures (or any other organization) should work on a standard for smaller CDs and work to replace today's CDs with smaller sized CDs so we can all enjoy smaller and lighter products.
Using external CD drives is not a good solution as people don't want to have to carry them around next to their devices, especially if it's a portable device.
Worked great for the Nintendo Gamecube, right?
blu-ray UMD?
My thoughts are that they have done it, the tech is sound but it is the speed of these things. To go through those layers etc and then in terms of burning one of those, can not seeing it being very fast early on.
Optical media? No, thanks.
you know those clear protector CD things at the end of a spindle? Usually theres like two of them? Try writing 'windows 7' and a fake 25 digit key with a sharpie on it and then write something like 'clear blu ray' at the bottom with some random jibberish to make it seem legit. i like to do this and then leave it some place and watch with pleasure when someone picks it up to check it out.
Cool - this should keep Kojima happy when making the next Metal Gear!
I'm still thinking anyone with a consumer HD camcorder loves the idea of having these. I know if these were reasonably priced (I dont know, ~$20-$30) I would be buying a BD burner TODAY.
The big benefit of optical media is for archiving; when your not using the data your not vampiring power. Storing data in the cloud requires servers, which require power for operation and cooling 24/7.
People need to stop clinging on to optical media... It's obsolete now.
If it's completely transparent, how are you supposed to know which side is the top and which is the bottom?
Its only top layers, so the laser can get through, you will still have a surface to write on, and a loverly shiny side for lasers.
10 layers? Guess the old polish the scratches out trick won't work anymore, and scratching it will permanently lose data. Damn
what color is the ray? blu-ray? red-ray? pink-ray? haha. j/k
Anyway, I hope it's not another format. Hopefully it' blu-ray and most of us are waiting for blu-ray writers to get cheaper. haha.
So we can finally backup our pr0ns.. i mean files. ROFL.
Are we still using physical media?
Yes we should use mental media instead.