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Super-DVD 5D disc is 5 to 10 years away'¦ meh
Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 24 May 2009 17:15
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We already have 512GB SSD’s from Toshiba on the market. Sure, they’re very expensive, but in a couple of years they’ll not only be much cheaper,but surely 1TB and 2TB or larger models will already be on the market. 3D Holographic memory is also supposed to be on the horizon, while hard disks will continue growing in capacity for the foreseeable future,too.
If blank Blu-ray discs cost the same as blank DVDs, with Blu-ray recorders also at DVD-recorder prices, something that would be rapidly rolled out with all new PC purchases, and cheap to upgrade an existing desktop PC to, use of Blu-ray discs could start to go through the roof.
That said, with (currently expensive) 64GB flash drives available today and the widespread prevalence and preference of downloading, it’s almost too late already.
With a home Blu-ray recorder to record HD TV programming or transfer your HD video camera recordings onto costing over $2000, and Blu-ray recorders for PCs still expensive, Blu-ray just hasn’t been the super-smash hit it was created to be, with the whole HD-DVD thing and a perfectly good and cheaper DVD market not helping much either.
What is certain is that multi-terabyte portable storage of various types is already in our not-too-distant future, and indeed, it’s already available today, with Western Digital offering 2TB 3.5-inch drives from just under AUD $400 and Seagate offering 2TB models, too.
Sure, a 3.5-inch portable hard drive is nowhere near as portable and sleek as a 12cm DVD sized disc, but if you need that much storage to go, go to your local computer store and buy one today.
And in 5 to 10 years time you can buy the disc that stores not 1.6TB or 10TB, but petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes or yottabytes instead.
Have ya gotta yotta? Definitely not today, but one day, you will – and we’ll still find ways to fill it.
With a home Blu-ray recorder to record HD TV programming or transfer your HD video camera recordings onto costing over $2000, and Blu-ray recorders for PCs still expensive, Blu-ray just hasn’t been the super-smash hit it was created to be, with the whole HD-DVD thing and a perfectly good and cheaper DVD market not helping much either.
What is certain is that multi-terabyte portable storage of various types is already in our not-too-distant future, and indeed, it’s already available today, with Western Digital offering 2TB 3.5-inch drives from just under AUD $400 and Seagate offering 2TB models, too.
Sure, a 3.5-inch portable hard drive is nowhere near as portable and sleek as a 12cm DVD sized disc, but if you need that much storage to go, go to your local computer store and buy one today.
And in 5 to 10 years time you can buy the disc that stores not 1.6TB or 10TB, but petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes or yottabytes instead.
Have ya gotta yotta? Definitely not today, but one day, you will – and we’ll still find ways to fill it.
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