http://gadgets.qj.net/50-000GB-DVDs-Could-Wipe-Out-Computer-HDs-HD-DVDs-and-Bluray/pg/49/aid/58535

What the fuck will video game developers do from now on, realease entire series at a time.

7/22/2006 1:29:06 PM

for example:

the Paramount disc

all paramount movies ever made on a disc

7/22/2006 1:33:53 PM

Sony will fight this thing like ww2

7/22/2006 11:47:08 PM

are you kidding? the studios would love this

you try to pirate a 50TB disc

7/22/2006 11:50:49 PM

I heard these are coming out next week.

7/23/2006 12:02:58 AM

^^ Ahahaha, that would take so fucking long. What's the theoretical maximum transfer rate on SATAII? 3gb/s? So you could read one of those discs in 4.5 hours MAYBE? I don't even want to think about downloading or burning something that large. The only problem would be how make a movie take up that much space.

[Edited on July 23, 2006 at 2:09 PM. Reason : ]

7/23/2006 2:08:23 PM

if they had burnable 50TB disks that could hold sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much porn

7/23/2006 2:23:47 PM

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"^^ Ahahaha, that would take so fucking long. What's the theoretical maximum transfer rate on SATAII? 3gb/s? So you could read one of those discs in 4.5 hours MAYBE? I don't even want to think about downloading or burning something that large. The only problem would be how make a movie take up that much space."

i think the idea is to put more on it - a lot more than 10hrs of video - not to read it off in a short amount of time

7/23/2006 2:24:55 PM

^ I'm talking about the time it would take to pirate an entire disc like that. Do note that the "^^" referred to someone talking about how hard it would be to pirate discs of that size.

[Edited on July 23, 2006 at 2:31 PM. Reason : ]

7/23/2006 2:29:49 PM

right and what's the point of that argument - just because the size of the disc is larger doesn't necessarily mean that what you put on it takes up more space - you could put a whole season of a tv show on that disc but it'd still take the same amount of time to download that entire season regardless of the media it was stored on....

as the quality goes up for media then the bandwidth available will also

7/23/2006 2:34:28 PM

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"The only problem would be how make a movie take up that much space."

I already said that. Pirating a 50 TB disc would currently be extremely time prohibitive. With that being said, I can't really see how you'd make anything take up that space now in any reasonable way. I don't see what's so hard to understand. You're not really saying anything I haven't.

[Edited on July 23, 2006 at 2:37 PM. Reason : ]

7/23/2006 2:35:56 PM

The process shouldn't be too much different from creating a blu-ray. And, I think sony would take it in the ass from this deal because they just made a new flag-ship product. Yes, tho I can see production industries loving this, buttttt, people will find a way to get around that and probably use it to their advantage

7/23/2006 2:51:02 PM

50 TB might seem like a lot now but 5 or 10 yrs down the road it could easily be nothing special.

7/23/2006 3:31:51 PM

it is possible that i have downloaded/uploaded 50TB of data in my lifetime... maybe lol

7/23/2006 4:21:12 PM

I think the biggest problem with this would be that a scratch would be pretty catastrophic. CDs and DVDs don't store anywhere near this amount of information and they can be compromised pretty easily due to a simple storage accident.

7/23/2006 4:23:06 PM

i've fxped that much easily - but i doubt i've downloaded/uploaded anywhere near it

7/23/2006 6:10:34 PM

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"Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston claims to have developed a layer of protein made from genetically altered, light-sensitive microbe proteins which could store up to 50K GB or 50 terabytes. The light-activated protein, found in Halobacterium salinarum membrane, is also known as bacteriorhodopsin (bR). It captures and stores sunlight and converts it to chemical energy. When light shines on bR, it is converted to a series of intermediate molecules each with a unique shape and colour before returning to its 'ground state'. By modifying the DNA that produces the bR protein, Prof Renugopalakrishnan and his colleagues were able to produce an intermediate that normally last for a few days to lasts for more than several years. They also engineered the bR protein to be more stable at the high temperatures generated by storing terabytes of data. They said the new technology will ultimately pave the way for a binary system to store data. "What this will do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely," said Renugopalakrishnan. Prof Renugopalakrishnan believes the protein layer could allow DVDs and other external devices to store terabytes of information.The new protein-based DVD will have advantages over current optical storage devices including next-gen DVD wannabe Bluray and HD-DVD because the information is stored in proteins that are only a few nanometres across. "The protein-based DVDs will be able to store at least 20 times more than the Blue-ray and eventually even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes) of information. You can pack literally thousands and thousands of those proteins on a media like a DVD, a CD or a film or whatever," he said at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Brisbane."

that's crazy

7/23/2006 6:15:51 PM

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"i've fxped that much easily "

??

typed?
faxed?
taped?
fu**ed?

really, what is that supposed to say? or maybe it is some l337 shortform i don't know of?

P.S. btw, 50 TB of plain text with no spaces would take up 12.5 billion A4 sheets with 1 inch margins.

[Edited on July 23, 2006 at 8:13 PM. Reason : ]

7/23/2006 8:07:12 PM

i bet in my lifetime i've downloaded maybe 1 or 2 tb

7/23/2006 8:15:38 PM

flashFXP?

http://www.inicom.net/pages/en.ffxp-home.php

7/23/2006 8:28:31 PM

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"?? typed? faxed? taped? fu**ed?"

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=deskbar&q=define%3Afxp

fxp

7/23/2006 8:44:43 PM

LDH

7/24/2006 1:00:29 AM

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"50 TB might seem like a lot now but 5 or 10 yrs down the road it could easily be nothing special. "

Agreed. TB is really short-term thinking ... start thinking petabytes, exabytes and beyond.

There's been research on the possibility of biological storage for years. I'd personally like to see a corporation really sink their teeth into this and make something of it.

7/24/2006 5:28:46 AM

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"There's been research on the possibility of biological storage for years. "

I know... I've gained about 20 pounds in the past few years and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon

7/24/2006 8:59:04 AM

just FYI -- there is a competing technology that is currently on the market from InPhase. Using holographic storage it can store 300GB on a disc the size of a DVD. They are still developing it further and expect to expand the capacity into the terabyte range. It's pretty amazing how it works...check out: http://www.inphase-tech.com/technology/index.html
The PDF's at the bottom are pretty cool by the way.

7/24/2006 5:17:43 PM

^ has been around for a while...i distinctly remember reading about it two years ago, when it was a different company

7/24/2006 5:25:07 PM

yeah, they're a spinoff of Lucent Technologies

7/24/2006 6:49:02 PM

every month that goes by, it becomes less and less impressive...they need to get the lead out and start marketing it

7/24/2006 6:54:44 PM