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Terabyte Discs (1,000 Gigabytes) Coming In 2010

by Thomas Houston on March 25, 2008 at 09:24 AM



High-capacity disc maker Mempile anticipates distributing its terabyte -- yes, that's 1,000 gigabytes -- optical discs in less than two years. The appropriately named TeraDisc uses 200 hologram-like layers that each hold 5 gigabytes, enabling the DVD-sized disc to store a terabyte of information. Mempile predicts that this storage capacity will eventually be raised to 5 terabytes on a single disc as this technology improves over time.

It's impressive that they've fit that much information on a DVD or Blu-ray sized disc, but we wonder how long it will take to burn a single disc of data.

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