Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk - eviltoast

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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    10 months ago

    What? Every BIOS in the world still uses the same system. Same thing for me on Linux.

    Only hard driver manufacturers used a different system to inflate their numbers and pushed a market campaign, a lot of people who didn’t even use computers said “oh that makes sense - approved”

    People who actually work with computer, memory, CPU, and other components in base 8 just ignores this non-sense of “x1000”