One Terabyte opitical discs available within 1 year
Posted on 15/02/02 17:46 by Jan Willem                             
One Terabyte opitical discs available within 1 year

The Japanese company Optware has announced that it will be able to produce 1 Terabyte discs within one year. 1TB is 1024 GB.

The company uses hologram recording to be able to store this big amount of data on the discs. Here are the specifications as given on the website:


Development of advanced optical disk storage system with very high memory capacity and very high transfer rate.
Optware Corporation is developing "optical disk storage system (both recording and replay) with very high memory capacity and very high transfer rate" by integrating hologram recording technology and optical disk technology. The followings are detailed features of this system:

  • Just CD size (Disk diameter: 120mm)
  • Capacity: over 1 tera byte (CD-ROM 2,000 pieces; DVD-ROM 120 pieces)
  • Transfer Rate: over 1 Gbps
  • CD/DVD upper compatibility
  • Direct connection with optical fiber communications network


    • The problem with these things are always that they have been developed and announced but we are almost never able to buy them. This company is planning to release this technology to the public within one year, but that brings us to another common problem; how much $$$ ?

    Source: Optware

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    By SirDavidGuy, Fri 15 Feb 2002 18:29
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    SirDavidGuyI saw basically the same news-post about a year ago. It will take more than a year. Trust me.
    By Guest, Fri 15 Feb 2002 18:49
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    The bitch of it is that it is not multi session :8
    By nhelesh, Sat 16 Feb 2002 09:47
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    One terabyte... that would be something, but Jottabyte... that would be so cool... after tera is 1024 gigas, peta is 1024 teras, eksa is 1024 petas, tsetta is 1024 eksas and jotta is 1024 tsettas... Jottabyte, that would be so much that you would never need more... well, if there would be that much room, everything would take more space, movies would be few tsettabytes and games about the same, so by the time it arrives, it's not so much anymore... but now it would be.
    By Guest, Sat 16 Feb 2002 12:18
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    Unfortunaly, 100MBps transfer rates sound nice, the access times are gonna be triple digit MS. They need to use 3D Cubes before they can get it to really shine.

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