Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD or Blu-Ray disc — but can hold a whopping 1.6 petabits of data, or around 200,000 gigabytes.reports
, that's around 4,000 times the data density of a Blu-Ray, and roughly 24 times of the highest-capacity hard drives currently available. Instead of just allowing you to live out the rest of your life watching movies without having to swap out the disBest of all, the researchers claim their discs could make use of conventional DVD mass production methods, producing a single disc in only six minutes.Instead of storing data in a single layer, the team came up with a way to encode data across 100 layers. As detailed in aTo both write and read data, the researchers relied on nanometer-scale lasers.
The light-sensitive material that enables all this, called AIE-DDPR, has been a "ten-year effort," as coauthor and University of Shanghai for Science and Technology computer engineering professor Min Gu toldTo be clear, it's unlikely that these super-high-capacity optical discs will bring Blockbuster back from the grave, given the decades-long and
Nonetheless, Gu and his colleagues believe their optical discs can be manufactured at commercial scales, making them an intriguing option to scale down the physical space taken up by data centers.
Technology Technology Latest News, Technology Technology Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: IntEngineering - 🏆 287. / 63 Read more »
Source: SciTechDaily1 - 🏆 84. / 68 Read more »
Source: ScienceNews - 🏆 286. / 63 Read more »