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Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later.

From the limited coverage, it doesn't sound like there's an actual optical drive that utilizes this yet and that it's just theoretical based on the properties of the material the researchers developed.

I'm not holding my breath, but I would absolutely love to be able to back up my storage system to a single optical disc (even if tens of TBs go unused).

If they could make a R/W version of that, holy crap.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Does it even matter when companies have dumped physical copies for streaming?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is more for bulk data storage than home media.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unless it somehow has longer shelf-life than tape storage, I think tape storage still wins.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that's a lingering question. Article doesn't mention it, and the linked research paper is to a broken link. Also possible that hasn't been determined yet.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It would make physical sharing of data a lot more efficient instead of the old stack of floppy disks we carried around in the old days.