The future of discs: 10TB CDs
December 7th, 2006
A while ago, Etherfast presented the 300GB CDs. Among their disadvantages, I saw the enormous price (between $100 and $125 per CD, and $15,000 per unit), which makes the holographic CDs nothing but a dream, so far.
But today I found out about a Romanian inventor, who managed to create a CD which is capable of storing no less than 10,000GB, which is 10TB. Unfortunately, the CD is, although created, not produced on a large scale yet. Its developer, Eugen Pavel, has won many awards with it (worth mentioning are the Geneva exposition and the Eureka exposition in Bruxelles, where it has been acclaimed and where it has won gold medals), and he estimates that, at first, the CD will cost between $100 and $200, but when it will become available in large scales, the cost will probably drop to about $30 per CD. Its price is not high, considering the CDs and DVDs which exist today, and their prices.
So far, this technology has been brevetted in 21 countries (and counting), and the project is approaching its release. The only thing needed now is a serious investor.
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Breveted, huh? I’d like to brevet some technology in various countries myself.
Let’s hope that we get a straightforward data storage device like CD-R, and that greedy constipated media corporations don’t screw this technology with Digital Restrictions Mania, like their stillborn “successes” of Blue ray & HD DVD.
:)
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee20001012002609.htm
I thought this was done way back in 2000. What happened to Moore’s law ?
Since there is no link from your article either I have to assume there is no truth to this news…
Breveted means ‘patented’, I’m pretty sure.
It’s Brussels, not Bruxelles (at least in English).
Acclaimed, not aclaimed.
Sorry to be pedantic… but I’m a pedant!
let’s hope it’s not vaporware
I think I prefer if someone improve the battery problem and give us 20hrs battery life for notebook. :D
10TB … I’m pretty comfy with 80gb in my hdd … and I still have like more than half of that to spare!
un cd de 10TB? asta da descoperire…..as vrea sa pot vb cu Etherfast…. poate ma ajuta el… intr.o prb! :)
> It’s Brussels, not Bruxelles (at least in English).
I’ll tell you something: out there there are a few cities which do not lie in the UK or the US.
I love to brevet my stuff. I brevet in Galt CA where brevetting is currently legal but the city council is considering making it mandatory.
Did everyone go see that linked story at geek.com. This seems to indicate that the above is a dead letter, having been introduced with as much fanfare 6 years ago. If no major company feels that this is worth developing, and no one else runs with it, it will never be manufactured.
The blog is in English; it’s not unreasonable to point out the correct English spelling of the city’s name.