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World’s Thinnest DVD Discs
Using an innovative nanoimprint technology, Hitachi Maxell, LTD have succeeded in creating the world’s thinnest DVD media at 0.092mm thick. This makes the new disc approximately 1/13th the thickness of existing DVD media, yet allows it to retain the full 4.7GB capacity. Obviously a single disc isn’t going to gain you any benefits simply by being thinner, but if you were to take a stack of say 100-discs, make them double-sided (9.4GB), stuff them into a cartridge 2.5-inches thick, and slap a fancy acronym like SVOD on it, you’d have a digital library cartidge with almost 1TB of capacity (940 MB GB). SVOD, which stands for Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc, really starts to shine when coupled with the next generation of blue laser technology, as a stack of 50GB discs could increase storage capacity to 5TB.
When released the discs will be priced at under $325 for a 100-disc cartridge.
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That is simply amazing. I don’t know if it has any practical applications at the moment, but you never know.
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only practical for enterprise size companies, like ms.
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940MB? I think you meant 940GB.
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GB dude
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Do they play in standard players ? If so, this is perfect for insertion into magazines, etc. They did this with vinyl records way back when.
AOL would stick one in every magazine… the horror.
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Andru… you’ve been dugg
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so is the svod some sort of hard drive?
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It looks like it has the possibility for being a fairly inexpensive and massive harddrive.
And Andru you’re welcome for the digg story.
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I want two of them!
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Awesome.
But wont the thinner version be easier to break or like, snap in half or something? Or RIP?
I don’t know…
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Good idea but the math is a little bad. First off, making them double-sided capacity DVDs would probably increase their size to something bigger than 0.092 mm thick, and even if it didn’t 0.092 x 100 = 9.2 cm which is 3.6 inches thick. This would not fit in a 2.5 disk. 300 GB is more like it.
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that is 0.092 MM not cm… so more like 9.2 mm, which is .92 cm, which come out to what.. 2/5 of an inch or something like that…
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