Wow, Optical Disk With 400 GB Capacity!
So many technology companies seem to compete developing storage media with giant capacity.
Such as the Japanese electronic company, Pioneer who announced that they are developing an optical disc with super big capacity, 400GB. There is none optical disc with the capacity that big in the current market.
Pioneer explained, the disc will have 16 layers with each layer able to contain data as big as 25GB, the same capacity as one side of Blu ray disc’s capacity. Pioneed disc also claimed to be compatible with Blu ray player.
As quoted from InformationWeek, Pioneer said their reason to build the disc is that the growing needs of big capacity storage media. Pioneer is set to launch this disc’s technology detail at the International Symposium of Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage on July, 13th in Hawaii. We still don’t know when the disc will be available in the market.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:38 am
That’s even bigger than my computer hard drive…
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