850 giga bytes (GB)capacity (1 Viewer)

[SashatheMan]

this is interesting, but i see no point for such a huge size.

United States-based storage player Iomega, has announced, it has been granted two optical storage patents, that if converted into a production process, can turn out Digital Versatile Disks (DVDs) with a mind-boggling 850 giga bytes (GB)capacity — that is 850 billion bits of information. This will make the devices about 100 times bigger than the biggest DVDs available today — and with at least 20 times more capacity than the next-generation high-density formats being readied for year-end availability.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/29/stories/2005052900311100.htm

 

[waddle_828]

yeah maybe for huge business that need regular back ups though they would probably use tape drives or something else...

but not for the everyday person for a LONG time yet

 

[Rafy]

omg that would be very useful!

FInally somewhere to store my movie and music collection....

 

[SashatheMan]

amagine how long it would take to write to one of those discs? maybe a few days

 

[Korn]

When do you reckon they will be released for the general public 2-3yrs?

 

[SashatheMan]

When do you reckon they will be released for the general public 2-3yrs?

prob sometihng like that. we just gotta fidn somethng to fill them with

 

[Korn]

prob sometihng like that. we just gotta fidn somethng to fill them with

Easy, remember how waf told u guys about that guy me, him, Supra and #4 went to school with, he managed that. It was full of porn and software (movies, games, music, etc)

 

[jumb]

Doens't 850 billion bits =/= 850 gigs?

850 million bits is closer to 99 gigs.

(850x10^9 ) / (8x1024x1024x1024)

 

[Korn]

850000000/8= 106250000 bytes
106250000/1024=103759.765625 kb
103759.765625/1024= 101.3278961181640625 MB

Is my original figure correct?
No it cant be it must be 850 billion bits, therefore

850000000000/8= 106250000000 bytes
106250000000/1024=103759765.625 KB
103759765.625/1024= 101327.8961181640625 MB
101327.8961181640625/ 1024= 98.95302355289459228515625

 

[Rafy]

http://news.google.com.au/news?hl=en&ned=au&q=Iomega&btnG=Search+News


And here is the actual patent!

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=6879556&OS=6879556&RS=6879556

 

[SashatheMan]

whats a byte?

 

[Korn]

whats a byte?

hahahha, ur kidding right?
Byte= 8 bits
bit= 1 character
kilobytes= 1024 Bytes
Megabyte= 1024 KB
Gigabyte= 1024 MB
Terabyte= 1024 GB

 

[SashatheMan]

hahahha, ur kidding right?
Byte= 8 bits
bit= 1 character
kilobytes= 1024 Bytes
Megabyte= 1024 KB
Gigabyte= 1024 MB
Terabyte= 1024 GB

wow fast reply.

but lol i was kidding, why would i start this post about disc capacity if i didnt know what i byte was

 

[Korn]

wow fast reply.

but lol i was kidding, why would i start this post about disc capacity if i didnt know what i byte was

Some ppl in my IPT class didnt know what a byte was

 

[SashatheMan]

Some ppl in my IPT class didnt know what a byte was

lol true true. i wonder why they even do IT

 

[Korn]

lol true true. i wonder why they even do IT

So they can play computers in class and bludge, which was alot at my school

 

[Cyph]

It's a high school IPT class, not a University engineering subject.