1 TerraByte Optical Disk!

Around 2010-2015 you might be able to but a 1,000 gigabyte optical disk.
Which blows out of the water any thing we currently have.
Todays CD-R's hold 700mb.
Todays DVD's hold 4.7gb and Dual layer can hold 8.5gb

the 2 big ones for the future is HD-DVD & Blu-Ray.
HD-DVD holds 15 gb, and Dual layer holds 25gb.(these disks work with current dvd players)
Blu-Ray Disks will hold 25gb, and dual layer will hold 50gb.(wouldn't play on current dvd players because it uses a finer blue laser instead of the traditional red.

This Future Optical Disk will be able to hold 250gb but capable of 4 layers making it hold an amazing 1 terabyte of data. For those of you who are thinking "How could you fill it", simple High Deffinition. High-Definition recording can eat up 10 gigabytes or more of disk space per hour of recording, so if you like to record tv shows or football games or whatever you watch then you would like this.

1 TB Disk in under a decade

Wow, that's impressive! But imagine if something happened to it -- you'd PUKE. At least if one of my CD-R/CD-RWs gets damaged or destroyed, it's not all that big of a deal. And imagine how long it would take to record that much data on a disk!

Originally posted by Hecate100
And imagine how long it would take to record that much data on a disk!

I would imagine that in 10 years we'll be able to read/record faster and use multiple lasers.

multiple lasers would be the only way I could see it as being feasible, if its a 4 layer disk thats 1tb, then have 4 lasers, But the disks would have to be made stronger then current ones if you want them to go much faster, because the G-Forces would rip the disk into pieces.

This technology is already out, but production isn't in effect.

Copied and Pasted from Ircspy.com

DVD of the future eats the Simpsons whole - [Technology]
Submitted by scienott on 9/28/2004 6:59:02 PM 25 Comments

A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-size disc has been unveiled by researchers from London's Imperial College.

Multiplexed Optical Data Storage or MODS, was revealed at the Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference 2004 in Taiwan on Monday.

MODS can potentially store up to one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of data on one standard-size disc--enough for 472 hours of film, or every episode of the Simpsons.

MODS will be laser-based like DVDs, CDs and the new Blu-ray system but uses much more subtle variations in the way light reflects from the discs. Where existing schemes have patterns of pits that reflect the laser as a series of ones and zeros, MODS can encode and detect more than 300 variations per pit. After error correction and encoding, this leads to 10 times the data density of Blu-ray Disc, currently the record holder for consumer optical storage.

Blu-ray discs--currently available only in Japan, with European products expected in 2005--can store up to 25GB per layer and can have two layers. MODS will have 250GB in each of up to four layers.

Products are not expected for five to 10 years, depending on developmental funding, but the researchers are looking at using the technology in discs physically much smaller than current DVDs.

I'm going to predict that there will be significant, specialized tax on those babies.

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Originally posted by Murcielago
For those of you who are thinking "How could you fill it", simple High Deffinition.

Yeah, current TV standards are fifty years old crap so it would be high time to change to better standards.

Originally posted by Murcielago
multiple lasers would be the only way I could see it as being feasible, if its a 4 layer disk thats 1tb, then have 4 lasers, But the disks would have to be made stronger then current ones if you want them to go much faster, because the G-Forces would rip the disk into pieces.

You don't need to make them spin faster, these bigger capacities are achieved with higher data density so it increases transfer rate equally if you don't lower spinning rate.

Originally posted by Murcielago
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lol yea yea