New storage Media, Translucent Discs

[Richard_Cranium72]

It's been a while since we discussed this one.
Thought it's a good topic for those who haven't had the chance to review

" The FMD-ROM disc planned for release has 10 (!) layers, compared to a maximum of 2 for a CD, and maximum of 4 for a DVD. What’s even scarier about the disc, which is of the same size as a CD or DVD, is that it can store up to a massive 140GB!

Fluorescence memory has a tarnfer speed of up to 1GB per second today. IF we were to trust the transfer speed of FMD drives to develop like the one of CD-ROM drives, you can trust this speed to increase to 72GB/sec in three to four years

Over 20 hours of HDTV (MPEG-2 compressed) video, a small library or the contents of your entire CD collection, uncompressed, on a SINGLE 120mm disc

by Adam Duracz

http://www.3dhardware.net/features/dvdead/

[Target]

Thanks for bringing this up again Doctor.

I read about this company last year, and they are definitely going to be a major player in future technology.

You know what the coolest part of this though?? The figures you have quoted are indeed what they intend to release with their first generation products......However, my understanding after writing with some of their company representatives is that they have many more pleasant surprises they intend to release as well (ie: bigger, faster, etc.) at later dates.

Man.....what a great point in history to be alive http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Jeff7]

Heck with CDs - how bout adapting this technology for use in hard drives. Imagine that - 140GB - per platter! That would be nice. Wonder how long a thorough scandisk would take then. A month? Or 10...

[Variable]

Just looked at the article!! Fantastic! Later Generation Disks (Blue Laser) will hace a capacity of 1 TERABYTE!!! And first generation 1x Drives will have a transfer speed of 1 Gigabit!! That's faster all HDs!
When do you think they will start production of this and when will we see the first products? With this around the corner do you think DVD will establish itself like the CD? I might take a look at their stock? Hm could be interesting (dreaming of 10000% annual return)?! If they manage to establish it!
What do you think?

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[desmocat]

That's what I'm sayin!!! If they can put out the players for what they said on their website, they will have the storage market by the jimmys. I looked at the stock price, it is about $11 now (as of last friday) and it will be/is traded on the NASDAQ OTC board. That would be too cool to have that kind of storage/download speed.Now all we need is to speed up everything else to really take advantage of the new technology. Mp

[Variable]

Does anyone know when these Disks and Drives will be available to the consumer?