Petabit Optical Disk

[zurst]

Will Imgburn support this? 🙃

https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabi-1851272615

[dbminter]

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]

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]

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.