News - Sony and Panasonic agree to team up on 300GB optical disc

[HEXUS]

Optical storage offering at least six times the capacity of Blu-ray should be here by 2015.

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[MrJim]

...and it still won't be big enough

[jateruy]

it is made for next gen consoles I know

[killer7xx]

We will have 1tb flash drives by then

[CampGareth]

Long term archival? Really? The average lifespan of an optical disk is supposedly 7 years, best case 15 and worst case 2. Compare that with a hard drive or tape storage where assuming you turn them off and put them in a dust free container they'll last to the end of time (or thereabouts). Even ssds beat optical disks with a lifespan of 10-20 years when no power is supplied. How's about you just bring back microdrives which were tiny hdds as big as a CF card, or maybe a little bigger will do if they need more capacity.

[Brewster0101]

As other, fail to see why the interest or investment in this. Even 50GB bluray recordable discs are expensive, hard drives are still so cheap this makes no sense. Even a 2.5" drive makes more sense.

[bytejunkie]

are blu ray discs capable of storing info for full films for 4k displays? if so then i cant see a use.

[jim]

are blu ray discs capable of storing info for full films for 4k displays? if so then i cant see a use.

I doubt it. I think full blu-ray rips of current 1080p content can be 40GB-ish, so the codec would have to be ludicrously effective. Maybe the 100GB Blu-ray discs could have a chance, but still might be a push.

[Odeas]

Gonna be a while before 4k displays are really taking off but I could see these being used for films even more so if the next consoles pick this format. Can't see much use for archiving especially very long term.

[dasundnc]

What good will this make when Blu-ray's still failing to make a impact.....

[Saracen]

Long term archival? Really? The average lifespan of an optical disk is supposedly 7 years, best case 15 and worst case 2. Compare that with a hard drive or tape storage where assuming you turn them off and put them in a dust free container they'll last to the end of time (or thereabouts). Even ssds beat optical disks with a lifespan of 10-20 years when no power is supplied. How's about you just bring back microdrives which were tiny hdds as big as a CF card, or maybe a little bigger will do if they need more capacity.

It depends on the nature if the optical technology. That might be the case for CD+/-R and DVD+/-R, but other optical technologies, like DVD-RAM, MO or PD drives are far better suited, IMHO, to archive than tape.