News - How to fit 1,000TB of data onto a 12cm optical disc

[davidcrofter]

Man I really could download the internet if these ever come to market!!

[lumireleon]

1000TB !!!! even 4TB is big!

[DanceswithUnix]

Well doesn't have to be a complete sealed drive, just a sealed disk, like a state of the are floppy disk... remember them?

Certainly do remember them, though I am too young to have used punch cards

Magneto-Optic drives are probably a better model, cool enough for Mission Impossible films. But if a sealed unit means better density & reliability, I would be good with that. I mean seriously, at a petabyte per platter, would take a while for me to fill that.

[AEGIS]

1,000 Terrabytes, does this mean i'm going to see a Petabyte drive before i start "kicking buckets".
The thing about that much data is it will take too long to read, maybe 2 weeks.