Sony And Panasonic Announce "Archival Disc," Next-Gen Optical Disc That Can Store 300 GB Of Data

proudly_X · 2014-03-10T09:07:40Z

ThatNaijaBlog - The Archival Disc is five times larger than the Blu-Ray disc and should store up to 1 TB of data in future

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TechImperia3690d ago

Discs have become obsolete now, people feel more comfortable in using their 1TB hard disks these days.

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SnakeCQC3690d ago

Not really; hdds because of the way the are have many points of potential failure. If one thing inside the hdd fails it can be impossible to retrieve your stuff. Having a large disc like this especially if its rewritable is going to be great.

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TechImperia3690d ago

yeah you explained it right, but i was talking in layman's terms that it is gonna be hard for people to switch back to discs even if they provides 1TB of storage in the future. they just wouldn't find it very comfortable to switch, though its very debatable that discs are more secure than a HDD or not since a disc can develop scratches very easily which would just render it unusable , also not completely denying possibilities of a possible HDD Component failure too.

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SnakeCQC3690d ago

blu rays are all coated with a very tough scratch proof layer.

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badz1493689d ago

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if you have ever own a BD movie or BD PS3 game, you would know that the data side has protective layer and it would need a real effort to dent a scratch on it. slide it on the table, on the floor or whatever, it's really nothing fragile like a DVD.

it's just that the problem of using optical medium is the hassle needed to write things on it. it has never been as simple as HDD or SSD where R/RW can be done at will. on disc, you need to rewrite the whole thing over again and it takes a longer time the larger the disc size is.

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yezz3689d ago (Edited 3689d ago )

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Exactly. I've had my ps3 since 2007 and to this day I haven't faced a single scratch on the discs. So unless you rub them against sandpaper for fun you're not going to get scratchy discs...

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proudly_X3690d ago

If the price is relatively at a sweet spot, I think more people will prefer it to a standard HDD. Not excluding the fact that it is dust and water resistance,

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Speed-Racer3689d ago

Facebook is using Bluray (I believe) to "cold" store less accessed data. These are really good. I wouldn't mind owning a few myself to store my music and what not.

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2pacalypsenow3689d ago

lol I will take a Blu ray movie over some shitty low bitrate Digital movie any day of the week

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TechImperia3689d ago

I am amazed to see these many people are in support of the bluray discs. ok, i would prefer them for movies too but for data storage, seriously? if i start to use these bluray discs for storing my data then i am afraid about the tons of hours that would be wasted in writing these discs since i have to move data very frequently or if these discs can be written at 25MB/sec then its another story for another day. though, only time will tell if these might be actually successful.

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Dasteru3689d ago

A 16x Blu-ray burner has a write speed of 72MB/s

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mushroomwig3689d ago

By that logic hard disks are also obsolete because of solid state drives, clearly it isn't the case.

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yezz3689d ago

Said no one ever.

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Spiewie 3690d ago

Sounds promising.

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ZoyosJD3689d ago

Only if the price is right. Right now they are stating professional oriented only.

We need something, as neither the internet or HDDs are an efficient way to sell 4k movies and such.

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MajorGecko3690d ago

i had data stored on rewritable dvd's for 5-6 years and i threw one into my pc last month and it was blank. I hope these blu ray doesnt do this aswell.

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Dasteru3689d ago

That is a common mistake people make. DVD-RWs are not designed for long term storage, they are primarily for data transfers and typically only last 1-2 years.

The best disks for long term storage are DVD+Rs, preferably ones marked as "Archival grade" if you can afford them.

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ajax173690d ago

Whatever happened to Holographic Versatile Discs?

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Chevalier3689d ago

Problem with Holographic versatile disc if I recall was that the way all data is stored is not the same which would require the data to be converted before storage. That takes a lot of time, especially if your talking about the complete servers of a company which is one sector they would target to sell the product.

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Gadgetgyaan3689d ago

300GB Storage is good but the price will decide its future.

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Sgt_Slaughter3689d ago

If they are anything like the high capacity SD cards, then it'll be a lot of dough for 'em.

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1nsomniac3689d ago (Edited 3689d ago )

Have they managed to commercially fill 300GB Blu-Rays yet? - If I'm right that Blu-Ray's can already store upto 300GB? well 268gb or whatever it was.

Bit premature but forward thinking is always a good thing.

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con4g233689d ago

seems like a part of ps5 has been revealed
but this disc alone and player/reader will cost a lot ofcourse

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Agent_hitman3689d ago (Edited 3689d ago )

This is one of the reasons why the future of "Digital distribution only" is bullsh!t. Consumers still wants a physical disc for future use; and to feel that you bought a legitimate copy because you're keeping a copy stored on a disc. Whereas on digital only, if your account gets hacked then you're finished. You have to contact the admin or CSR to file a complaint and retrieve your account or get another one...

For the console fans who wants a Disc drive-less future consoles?, it would be impossible, cause until now internet speed of various ISP not only here in ASIA but also in US is still unacceptable for many..

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Emme3689d ago

SSD, 230Mb/sec. This disc stuff is getting redundant with the cloud and all. I also started getting more games digitally simply because storage space for the physical boxes is getting tighter here at home.

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plmkoh3689d ago

I think many people miss the point of these discs. There are thousands of companies whether in the music industry, business etc that will not accept your work on a Hard disk/USB flash. And there are a myriad of reason why, but the fact that many optical discs are 'single' use is the sole reason they will never be obsolete.

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steve30x3689d ago

What happened to Red Ray disks?

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Dasteru3688d ago

They are called CDs and DVDs.

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steve30x3688d ago

No Red Ray was supposed to be the next upgrade from BlueRay that held 100GB

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Dasteru3687d ago

Not sure who told you that but they were messing with you. Multi layer Blu-rays with 100GB+ capacitys already exist, and Blu-ray has a theoretical limit of 300GB. The reason Blu-ray is called Blu-ray is because it utilizes a blue laser diode to read the disks. CDs and DVDs both use red diodes.

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Kennytaur3689d ago

I wonder when and if they'll make it to consumers. There are high end blurays that can store 128GB, so since the majority is still at 25GB it seems far away. No point im changing tech until we've maximised it, and I'm guessing this stuff will be too expensive for consumer-level purchase for a few years.

Sounds like it's more aimed towards storage rather than media at the moment.

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