zurst Posted February 22, 2024 Posted February 22, 2024 Will Imgburn support this? 🙃 https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabi-1851272615
dbminter Posted February 22, 2024 Posted February 22, 2024 How practical would it be for ImgBurn to support something like that? To store 1 petabit of data per disc, you have to have 1 petabit of data on standard storage media to begin with. How many people are going to have 1 petabit of information readily available to write to these discs? And it would be impossible to write an ISO for these before burning because there are no such things as petabit hard drives/SSD's. Even if you didn't use the entire 1 petabits, you'd be wasting a lot of potential space. The highest capacity HDD is something like 26 TB so you could copy the entire contents of a 26 TB HDD to a petabit disc, but you're wasting a lot of viable space. Even with a RAID set up, you'd still only be using 52 TB. And the issue of creating ISO's before hand still exists.
zurst Posted February 22, 2024 Author Posted February 22, 2024 1 hour ago, dbminter said: How practical would it be for ImgBurn to support something like that? To store 1 petabit of data per disc, you have to have 1 petabit of data on standard storage media to begin with. How many people are going to have 1 petabit of information readily available to write to these discs? And it would be impossible to write an ISO for these before burning because there are no such things as petabit hard drives/SSD's. Even if you didn't use the entire 1 petabits, you'd be wasting a lot of potential space. The highest capacity HDD is something like 26 TB so you could copy the entire contents of a 26 TB HDD to a petabit disc, but you're wasting a lot of viable space. Even with a RAID set up, you'd still only be using 52 TB. And the issue of creating ISO's before hand still exists. Yes, you are right, I don't believe in it either, just kidding 😄
dbminter Posted February 22, 2024 Posted February 22, 2024 Plus, there's also a speed factor to take into consideration. It takes about 20 minutes to write 25 GB to a BD-R at 12x. Unless these Super DVD discs make a quantum leap in write speeds, I can't fathom the amount of time it would take to write a petabit of data.
Kabombon Posted March 13 Posted March 13 This is old news, because many already did many variants of a "Petabit Optical Disk" all over the work, the oldest variant being this one: Hyper CD-ROM According to Wikipedia, the technology used to make this disc was used by Sony to make the system named "Blu-Ray". This has a theoretical limit of 100EB (Exabytes) but until litography technology reaches that level, let's say the "Petabyte Disk" is attainable right now in labs pretty easily, and should see the light out of the box in consumer houses in the next 20-30 years. (yes, that late because there's little interes, and because what dbminter said is valid too) NOTE for dbminter: Even if the disc is WAY bigger than the total storage the consumer would have in his house, he can still burn to such a disc little by little using it exactly like a hardrive, although the files will permanently stay there and take up storage, unless he would use a ReWritable variant of the disc.
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