Optical storage media is dead
Optical storage media is dead
Sorry but it's really so.
Even the biggest Blu-Ray is tiny! 25 GB isn't much.
Imagine, a terabyte evenly distributed throughout the year is just 31 kilobytes per second. Even just one MB per second multiplied by one year needs 31.557.600.000.000 bytes or almost 32 terabytes!
Even the biggest Blu-Ray is tiny! 25 GB isn't much.
Imagine, a terabyte evenly distributed throughout the year is just 31 kilobytes per second. Even just one MB per second multiplied by one year needs 31.557.600.000.000 bytes or almost 32 terabytes!
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25 GB isn't much?
I mean, I know it doesn't come close to scraping the gargantuan size of 1 or 2 terabyte drives, but seriously, I don't think I'd ever use that much space.
And you're forgetting the most important thing: the entertainment industry needs to capitalize on giving you the smallest bang for your buck so they'll never store an entire video game's worth of music on a CD! It's just business sense, you know.
I mean, I know it doesn't come close to scraping the gargantuan size of 1 or 2 terabyte drives, but seriously, I don't think I'd ever use that much space.
And you're forgetting the most important thing: the entertainment industry needs to capitalize on giving you the smallest bang for your buck so they'll never store an entire video game's worth of music on a CD! It's just business sense, you know.
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I can't see why you would think that SupFanat, I use at least 3 cds each week. CDs mind, not even dvds. I guess you mean more obsolete instead of dead?
In addition, I have had the opportunity on several occasions to help people grab data off their floppies which certain unnamed parties were still using as their only portable storage media. Although, I guess the whole thing is highly dependent on where you live...
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That's OK. How many storage place is minimally needed to record all your visual experience about a trip between London and Edinburgh?VikingBoyBilly wrote:No, I said (well, you said it) that the human brain wastes space by using more than what's needed by not compressing the information down to the smallest possible storage units.
The distance is 411 miles (or 661 kilometers if you're more comfortable with kilometers. I prefer to be comfortable with both kinds of units - metric and non-metric). 300 KB per foot (1 MB per meter) means 1,6 GB per mile (1 GB per kilometer). So how much storage would you need? 661 GB! Would you never like to travel such distance with all your memories recorded?
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Yeah, but optical storage media is cheaper than disk drives, and it doesn't have any moving parts.
Also, Sony announced a 1 TB "Archive disc." It's supposed to arrive in a couple months.
http://www.dailytech.com/Sony+Panasonic ... e34478.htm
Also, Sony announced a 1 TB "Archive disc." It's supposed to arrive in a couple months.
http://www.dailytech.com/Sony+Panasonic ... e34478.htm