25TB titanium oxide 'super discs' in the works?

25TB ought to be enough for anybody

Great. hard recordable stuff thas filled wih HOT interactions. prob NOT R/W ?

drashek

hahahaha

Great idea, but if we can't just go from 25 GB disks to 25 TB disks. I'd be totally happy with 1 or 2 TB, disks, but 25 TB are impractical at this point. Even if you were going to have full 50 GB BD rips, it would hold 500 movies. Sure a few years from now it might change, but I don't think the average person would have that much data to back up.

Then you're looking at burning these disks. I'm guessing this will be a process that takes days. You're probably looking at a dedicated computer just to be used as a giant burner, with some kind of crazy buffer. You'd have to run them at very slow speed to avoid a very expensive coaster. And as someone said, what if you lose or scratch it? You'd probably need to have the discs inside a special enclosure that prevents actual contact with the disk itself, by anything other than the computer.

I love optical disks for the price and storage, but as far as a long term storage medium, they're horrible. They get scratched, fingerprints, etc.

i'm hoping by the time this super disc is available, your average pc will be fast enough to actually read/write it, if it were available tomorrow it might take 2 hr to copy it!

25TB??.... unfortunately, with the way things are going, Windows 2020 and Office 2020 will occupy 22TB.

I have no idea what's up with technologists these days. Back in the good old days in my first job, we had 7GB of online storage and was able to run a integrated system that supported an entire front to back brokerage business with 75,000 clients.

I wonder how much will this cost...if a (let's say) 5 gb DVD is 10 $, then a 50 gb would be 100 a 500 would be 1000 and a 5000 would be 10.000. Multiplied by 5 wil be................LOL..........

Burning DVD of 25Tb at 4x .... 280 years later...

Are you kidding? 4x on a 25TB disc would be way faster than even the fastest SSDs.