Optical storage: RIP
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversTDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer 320 GB optical disk - using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology.
Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is at the end of the line.
Why do formats die?
When their reliability, capacity, performance, density and cost aren’t competitive. Which is where optical is now - even 320 GB optical.
You probably don’t remember punched paper tape - all the rage in the 60s and early 70s - but it was popular on 16 bit minicomputers back when 4k of RAM was respectable and 64k unaffordable. It was limited to a few dozen KB of capacity and not reliable in long-term use, so when 240KB 8” floppies arrived in 1973 paper tape was toast.
But floppies couldn’t keep up with the growth of applications and data sets. The 100 MB Zip drive was insanely popular when introduced in 1994, but by 1999 the format was on the way out thanks to cheaper and more capacious CD-R drives.
Despite heroic efforts to increase removable magnetic disk capacities - culminating in 2001 with the 5.7 GB Orb drive - today removable magnetic disk media is dead, killed by cheaper optical and more convenient flash media. Just like magnetic killed paper.
Removable: backup and transfer
Removable media is good for 2 things: data backup and data transfer. Tape dominates removable media backup today with capacities rivaling the largest disks.
Thumb drives long ago replaced floppies for smaller file transfers - “sneakernet” - with external hard drives handling large capacities. With 1 TB 2.5” hard drives, even a writeable 50 GB Blu-ray (BD-R) can’t compete with a small hard drive in transfer speed or capacity.
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Comments(7)
so we are going to be buying software on flash drives instead cd\dvd\br?
its cheaper to simply "print" discs, cd, dvds than manufacture flash drives....
the future is on demand... download everything via broadband....
no such thing as 1tb 2.5" hard drives. max is currently at 640gb.
3.5"
drives are at about 2tb now.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/27/wd-ships-industrys-first-2-5-inch-1tb-hard-drive/
lol
yes you can get 1tb 2.5 drives now. blu-ray will need to make a big move very soon or
loose a big share of the market. i can purchase a 1tb drive for less then it cost for 20
25gb blanks.
its all going to cloud anyway. portable storage will mainly be for transporting things we
dont want others to know we have!
i don't agree. optical media is for example the best media to give to a friend some
photographs or videos for them to keep. it also is useful because the data can't be
easily or accidental deleted.
however, for the future, the best format for the
future should be something like in a sd format. currently it is not because it is not open
enough, there are terrible compatibility issues between sd and sd-hc, and sd_hc support is
not wide enough yet in pc in-built card readers. something like sdxc (if opened up without
royalties {yeah right!})should become standard the for large and small transfers alike. a
sd-like format should also really replace usb sticks due to sd's lower manufacturing
costs. sd is also easier to carry in a wallet (well, if wallet manufacturers would make
sd-sized pouches in wallets that is!)
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By flbudz on 13.10.2009 - 05:10