Gotta love the speed and storage space of Blu-Ray discs, right? Scientists think not and believe a higher standard can be achieved. Thanks to the folks at Panasonic + Sony, say hello to the next-generation of optical storage: the Archival Disc. More detail son why this is a big deal lies below past the break.
The Archival Disc is what you know about Blu-Ray on steroids!
Imagine a disc that ranges in storage from 300GB that’s readable for at least to 50 years. That’s what Archival Disc is. Crazy, right? This is all possible thanks to Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology that’s a magnetic tape storage format. The 1st line of Archival Discs will start off w/ 300GB and will later grow to 500GB then 1TB. It will share many of the same dimensions of Blu-Ray but will offer 3 layers of data per side.
We can expect this high-storage discs to become available sometime in 2015. Beware they will more than likely be really expensive at 1st.
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