http://www.rlslog.net/tiny-huge-1-terrabyte-optical-disk/

these disks have a capacity 20x larger than Blu-Ray's 50GB's.

:hammer:
all in favor of xbox360 say "I"

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the only problem i see with 360, is the overheating problem.

I wonder what their idea of "cheap" is. I still can't believe I wasted $500 on a blue ray disc player!

well, these aren't discs for the 360.
this is just a new format altogether.

I'm wondering too, but I'd gladly pay $500 for a drive capable of playing and burning these.

one of these drives+a spindle of discs = never needing to delete anything ever again.

yeah i highly doubt it will be truely cheap
cheap enough for a disk
imagine buying a game using that disk it will set you back

the discs should be pretty cheap to make.
it uses the same plastic as dvds, the only difference is thinner layers.
I'm sure the layers are sprayed on or something along the lines of it.

I could see a disk like this being around $2-$2.50 each. which isn't that bad at all, considering the capacity.

just for the capacity, and possibilities of backing up data, I would have no problem paying $50 a disc. this is a TERRABYTE of data for crying out loud.
even if you purchase one every year to clean up your computer, it would definitely be worth the investment.

I, for one, can't wait for these discs. I'll be grabbing a drive as soon as I can.

theres a thing called marketing

this disc will have to go through several hands
hence if a disc cost $2.50 it will sell for $80, to begin with anyway

also, yes you would buy it to backup your hdd as it is very cheap for doing that but i cant see it being put to use in games as blue-ray even has a problem with speed

no, I was saying $2.50 AFTER everything.
so the retail would be $2.50.
these discs are made up of the same shit dvds are, blu-ray needed a new material that could allow the thinner fragments to be stored.
really, the only different disk wise is additional layers. this isn't like flash memory, or harddrives, where each bit of memory is seperate piece.
disc format memory is cheap.

BUT, if comparing these new discs to standard dvds, these are 100x larger, so .20x100= $20

and I never actually said anything about applying them to game use. I'm interested in them for their storage.


the drive may be expensive though, it's a new laser, with a bunch of focusing mechanics and it needs to be capable of adjusting for 200 miniscule layers.

I could actually imagine seeing one of those drives at $1500, but even at that price I'd say it's definitely worth it.

Wait, isnt your argument always "We dont need that much space, compression ftw"?

What do we put on a 1TB disk? The internets?

no, I'm not talking about these discs for game or single movie use.
that would be a waste. a terabyte disc could be used to backup your harddrive.
downloading music and movies, these disc would do wonders in freeing up space.

storing you're WHOLE movie collection on a single disc would be extremely convenient.
the standard for movie downloads is 700mb, you could fit over 1400 movies on one disc.

Cool. Doesnt pose a threat to Blu-Ray though. Seeing as that could do the exact thing (using more layers).

but, blu-ray's laser gets distorted through the additional layers.
and reaches a limit.
I believe blu-ray maxes out at 8 layers, and 25gb a layer. that's 200GB, which is a lot, but still only a fifth of these discs.

this new drive has a laser capable of reading 200 layers.

Didnt they fix the overheating problem ??