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Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later.

From the limited coverage, it doesn't sound like there's an actual optical drive that utilizes this yet and that it's just theoretical based on the properties of the material the researchers developed.

I'm not holding my breath, but I would absolutely love to be able to back up my storage system to a single optical disc (even if tens of TBs go unused).

If they could make a R/W version of that, holy crap.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Petabit/byte is not a buzz word.

We use bits, megabits, terabits, and petabits fairly standardly in tech.

That's not to be confused with bytes, megabytes, terabytes, and petabytes. Server farms will contain Petabytes (PB) of data.

Technically there's also exabit/byte, zettabit/byte, and yottabit/byte as we continue to climb the chain of technical capabilities. It's estimated that the internet overall has nearly 200 Zettabytes(ZB) of information in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I will refrain from using the word "standard", but when it comes to data storage the most common terminology is in bytes, as I said TB(terabytes), GB, etc. Saying Pb(petabits) isn't as common and gimmicky imo when referring to a new disk storage technology. 125 TB is impressive enough without having to throw the Peta in there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I don’t think there are any storage media that advertise their capacity in *bits though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

it's not a buzzword, unless you produce a storage medium using it for some reason.

Then you ask questions.