Blu-ray is the current physical format champ. At 25GB — 100GB if you take into account those quad-layer specimens we’ve heard about — Blu-ray technology is the go-to standard for people that have an almost insatiable hunger for physically transported data. Many of us nerds would handedly prefer a large flash drive, as over the course of the drives’ life, a considerable amount of money will be saved. Plus, it’s just so much easier to copy something to a flash drive instead of a Blu-ray.
But a new technology out of Japan could have us “physical is dead” fanboys contemplating where our loyalty lies with promises of 25TB — yes, that’s a terabyte — discs…
The technology, being worded on by Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo, centers around Titanium-oxide. The properties behind TO have it normally displaying a “black state” when conducting electrons, turning into a “brown state” when hit by light. Nerdy stuff indeed.
Now before you get all hot and heavy over potential pricing issues, take note: Titanium-oxide is in abundant supply and therefore cheap. Very cheap. A claimed 1/100th the price of current materials that go into Blu-rays in fact.
25TB discs are a pretty sweet thing to think about. Now if only such storage increases and claimed price reductions would hit SSD’s, then I’d be super stoked.
