English Physicists Develop 1 TByte Storage Discs - Club CDFreaks

**Womble** · 27-09-2004

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Physicists at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk with so much storage capacity that every episode of The Simpsons made could fit on just one.

Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan today, Dr Peter Török, Lecturer in Photonics in the Department of Physics, will describe a new method for potentially encoding and storing up to one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data, or 472 hours of film, on one optical disk the size of a CD or DVD.

All 350 scheduled episodes of The Simpsons, totalling 8,080 minutes of film, could be easily stored on the new disk, dubbed MODS - for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - by the Imperial College team.

Full Story Can Be Read @ PhysOrg.Com

Yay for the English Boffins.

*ckin2001* · 28-09-2004

hopes to be out by 2009 or 2010? vaporware

**xtacydima** · 28-09-2004

Wonder how long it would take to burn 1 terabyte...hehehe

SKSiC · 04-10-2004

Good Point.. but then again you have to have 1tb hdd storage to be able to fill a 1tb disc

28-09-2004	#2 (permalink)
ckin2001 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Strongbadia Posts: 3,408	Re: English Physicists Develop 1 TByte Storage Discs hopes to be out by 2009 or 2010? vaporware __________________ www.livingwithoutmicrosoft.org last 5 cd's Avril Lavigne - Whatever the new one is called Lucky Boys Confusion - Throwing the Game lostprophets - Start Something Story of the Year - Page Avenue Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Don't let schooling interfere with your education. -Mark Twain

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xtacydima Moderator Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posts: 3,850	Re: English Physicists Develop 1 TByte Storage Discs Wonder how long it would take to burn 1 terabyte...hehehe __________________ My Rig: Antec P160 P4 3.0E GHz running WinXP w/SP2 Scythe SCMN-1000 Heatsink w/Arctic Silver 5 Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 (550W power supply) ASUS P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard 2GB RAM - Corsair XMS TWINX2048 (2x1GB) 3200C2Pro CL2.0 ATI RADEON X850XT AGP 2 - WD 37GB Raptor's (in RAID 0) via onboard Promise controller Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD on Primary SATA channel Western Digital 150GB SATA HDD on Secondary SATA channel Lite-On LTR-52246S 6S0F (IDE1 Master) Lite-On JLMS XJ-HD166S DS1C (IDE1 Slave) *NEC 3500AG 2.TC Quiet* (IDE2 Master) Lite-On SOHW 1673S JS07 (via USB 2.0 to IDE & set to Master)** Found a Solution here helpful? Like the forum's? Well then, what are you waiting for JOIN NOW!!!

04-10-2004	#4 (permalink)
SKSiC CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 29	Re: English Physicists Develop 1 TByte Storage Discs Good Point.. but then again you have to have 1tb hdd storage to be able to fill a 1tb disc

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