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April 27th, 2009, 12:45 PM | #1 |
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GE has super DVD that holds 100 DVDs
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April 27th, 2009, 12:59 PM | #2 | |
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April 27th, 2009, 04:08 PM | #3 |
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Optical disks are better for archival purposes. Hard drives are not permanent storage. After 5 years of inactivity, I wouldn't expect them to work at all. Rather than competing with Hard Drives, I think it's more likely that this disk will have to compete with cloud storage (internet) or Solid State Cards.
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April 27th, 2009, 06:43 PM | #4 |
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I really can't see cloud storage having the transfer bandwidth needed for our high data video needs.
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April 28th, 2009, 01:25 PM | #5 | |
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LTO-4 tape will run you $50 modest quantity. So that's 800GB native storage at less than .07 cents a Gigabyte. Tape is king for archival for a reason and that is $$$$$ By 2012 LTO-5 will be out at 1.6TB per tape native. There's no chance for this tech to survive. It's a great PR piece for GE but they know it's not going to hit the market and gain traction. |
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May 3rd, 2009, 11:14 AM | #6 |
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CD got established in a big way, almost entirely because the major recording studios adopted the media for distribution of music to consumers (and consumers accepted it). DVD and BluRay (so far) got established in a big way, almost entirely because the major movie studios adopted the media for distribution of movies to consumers (and consumers accepted it). It just doesn't seem likely that this new technology will enjoy the same dynamic, for becoming established in a similarly big way.
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May 3rd, 2009, 11:17 AM | #7 |
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CD and DVD (and BluRay so far) would never have attained anything close to the level of use they have, for computer data storage, if not for the recording and movie industries' prior adoption of the media for the purpose of distributing their products to consumers.
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May 3rd, 2009, 09:27 PM | #8 | |
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Being a sealed mechanical device, as long as they don't receive any G force trauma or extreem temperature change, I would expect them to last indefinitely. AFAIK, use is the single fastest degradation of a HDD. Not storage.
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