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An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD
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#12That will warm the hearts of the Ubuntu Unity team. Can you imagine the amount of bloat they can put on a single installation disk now?
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#13Title says CD, but it's actually a DVD. Still extremely impressive.
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#14I see where they mention writing the data, but does anyone see how/if they are reading the data?
From his other pubs [1], it looks like a two-photon process is involved as part of writing in deep-subdiffraction limit for lithography. Will be fun to try and reverse that.
[1] http://www.swinburne.edu.au/engineering/cmp/profile.php?memb...
Edit: Paper that this PR refers to is here: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130619/ncomms3061/full/nco...
Re: An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD
#15The print collection of the Library of Congress is estimated at 10TB. 990TB would be left on the DVD. Amazing.
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#16Can't wait to back up my 12TB RAID on a single disc.
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#17The idea to break the diffraction limit by using the this doughnut-shaped excitation spot comes from the STED microscopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STED_microscopy) developed by Stefan Hell (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany).
He actually showed that an additional intensity-dependent term can be added to Abbe's diffraction limit allowing sub 100um resolution with light. I think this idea is awesome and it sure won't be the last invention made possible by this trick.
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#18If this is real and can be commercialized it could lead to some pretty devastating fallout for the entertainment industry. You've got to know that there are a few obsessive archivists out there with pretty comprehensive collections of films spread across rooms of RAID arrays. When they can start backing those collections up for friends onto a single disc, ie a single disc that has more films than you could possibly watch in your lifetime the entertainment industry is going to pine for the days when torrents eve the big problem.
The same goes for rogue librarians, or Google Books employees dumping entire libraries onto discs and leaking them out.
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#19Seems a little past it's prime. Why would you want this when you have the internet?
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#20OK A) I think in this case the patents are justified :) AND B) Are CDs gonna make a comeback? Can we have cool mini-CDs?
By the time this is ready for production, flash or disk will have already caught up. I've seen it time and time again - the old tech continues to improve exponentially while the new tech takes forever to turn into something practical.