Spent most of my day at work reading about this instead of doing my proper literature search lol.
Red laser DVD's .... OLD
Blue laser DVD's .... nice .... but only a few times better
3D Data Storage ....Not the newest of concepts http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/relaged/940804Arc4171.html but fascinating none the less! http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/443/ashley.html.
"IN APRIL, the company demonstrated a prototype that holds 200 gigabits per square inch of storage capacity. The company is planning to commercially launch a disc next year that has a capacity of 300 gigabytes. By the end of the decade, it hopes to have a 1.6-terabyte disc ready. A blue-laser DVD, by contrast, maxes out at 100 GB of capacity, Dhar says." http://www.inphase-tech.com/
Red laser DVD's .... OLD
Blue laser DVD's .... nice .... but only a few times better
3D Data Storage ....Not the newest of concepts http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/relaged/940804Arc4171.html but fascinating none the less! http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/443/ashley.html.
"IN APRIL, the company demonstrated a prototype that holds 200 gigabits per square inch of storage capacity. The company is planning to commercially launch a disc next year that has a capacity of 300 gigabytes. By the end of the decade, it hopes to have a 1.6-terabyte disc ready. A blue-laser DVD, by contrast, maxes out at 100 GB of capacity, Dhar says." http://www.inphase-tech.com/