Another HUGE jump away from MD technologies

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Yep Folks CNET has an article about a NEW form of DVD ,.......that hold a Mind bogeling 1.6 TERRA bytes of data

ONE POINT SIX ..... TERRA BYTES ............. Geez , hard drives just got that big , now the DVD is gonna hold MORE data than your Harddrive

link

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/23/be...es-on-one-disc/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LS-120

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_drive

I was around in the 90s when these tried to take over the market with varying levels of success. Just once again I'd love to see a reasonably-priced competitor come out of nowhere and take on the Big Boys at the removable storage game and make some nice money in the process.

The problem, as I see it, is a question of needs of the mass market. Assuming a disc like this makes it out, no manufacturer is gonig to target it to the Average Joe off-the-bat; they will chase the industries that need it and want it badly... medical imaging, gov departments, banks, insurance, organisations that want to store huge loads of data and that currently pay a crapload for storage of said data and will be all-to-willing to buy expensive drives and discs; these are the people that will get it first, and happily bend over for the privilege - because it saves them money. This is assuming the drives are fast, too... for easy random access to data, too.

So, assuming Samsung has licensed this like they say, these are the first customers, IMO. Low-volume, high margin.

Right now, I coudl really use 1.6TB; ah the convenience of putting a heap of stuff on one disc... butttt... the masses aren't there yet. Plus it seems like every month we hear about a new disc breakthrough, but none have really made it to my local discount store