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JAPANESE HARDWARE MAKERS Sony and Panasonic have combined to create a cold storage medium.
Following from a development agreement signed last June, the two companies have announced the Archival Disc. The successor to the format war winning Blu-ray disc, the Archival Disc format is not aimed at the general public but rather for storing the expanding amounts of archive or cold storage data on company servers.
At launch, a single Archival Disc will hold 300GB of data, but the alliance, both of which participated in the marketing of Blu-ray, have committed to perfect the format with a view to eventually supporting 1TB of storage though implementation of multi-layering, increased data density and measures to avoid interference between layers.
The double-sided discs are not rewritable and are designed for the permanent storage of records, raw video footage and other materials that are needed to be filed but are rarely accessed.
PsychoEmperor
It's not re writable, so it won't take off until they fix that or another technology will come and take the limelight away. Mistakes happen, often. Often enough that you have to go back and change, edit and re save documents over and over again. Also, Idk if a company would trust 1 TB of date on a single, easily-destructible disc.
Perhaps as another means to back up storage?
I don't see the application being very useful in the current description.
jessejamesxx
The successor for Bluray will be some sort of flash drive or chip, if it isn't already. I have a 128gb flash drive, and in a few years they will most likely have 1tb drives the same size.
There needs to be a physical version of media, instead of everything being just "in the cloud". I'm really surprised that they haven't started selling movies or albums on little disposable flash drives.
sn0rch
jessejamesxx
The successor for Bluray will be some sort of flash drive or chip, if it isn't already. I have a 128gb flash drive, and in a few years they will most likely have 1tb drives the same size.
There needs to be a physical version of media, instead of everything being just "in the cloud". I'm really surprised that they haven't started selling movies or albums on little disposable flash drives.
A storage/archival format will ALWAYS be required. Why use re-writable media, that has a failure point?
Is no one understanding, Archival Disc? Why are you all seeing your movies and games?
sn0rch
jessejamesxx
The successor for Bluray will be some sort of flash drive or chip, if it isn't already. I have a 128gb flash drive, and in a few years they will most likely have 1tb drives the same size.
There needs to be a physical version of media, instead of everything being just "in the cloud". I'm really surprised that they haven't started selling movies or albums on little disposable flash drives.
A storage/archival format will ALWAYS be required. Why use re-writable media, that has a failure point?
Is no one understanding, Archival Disc? Why are you all seeing your movies and games?