"Good prospects for the medium"(Really???)- 200TB Optical Disc in development (1 Viewer)

[YANG]

Researchers reveal DVD-like disc that stores up to 200 terabytes

Researchers from China have succeeded in developing a new type of disc with a storage capacity of 200 terabytes, the size of a DVD.

www.pcworld.com

why not 200GB?
double the size of current 4K Blu-Ray so that 8k content can be burned into?

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Been reading about this disc development over the past few weeks.

Perhaps perfect for putting entire TV series on a single disc if compatible with today's players, but nobody expects the studios to release 8k content to physical media.

 

[JohnRice]

Um... it says 200TB, not 200GB.

This corresponds to 4000 times the data density of a Blu-ray disc or 21 times that of the most modern hard drives.

No way it's compatible with any current player. Sounds like a scientific/archiving thing anyway. I doubt this can be a consumer product in the foreseeable future.

 

[Worth]

Um... it says 200TB, not 200GB.



No way it's compatible with any current player. Sounds like a scientific/archiving thing anyway. I doubt this can be a consumer product in the foreseeable future.

Yup. UHD is the last consumer disc format.

 

[JohnRice]

Yup. UHD is the last consumer disc format.

And it's finicky enough. Something using the same medium with more capacity will only be more troublesome. I'd probably pass.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

Meanwhile, back on Krypton, Best Buy stopped selling these: