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Years ago my girlfriend sent me to blockbuster video, to rent “A scent of a woman”… they didn’t have it, so I rented a fish called Wanda instead Lmao

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So, what does that translate to in terms of how many DVDs or Blu-Rays one could fit on the disc? Like a thousand blu-rays, or something?

Hey Lois, I'm an Optical disk now

Bro fumbled it all: Bytes instead of bits 125 instead of 1600...

This is the point were the east takes over the gender-confused west.......

I'd use BD-Rs but they are way too expensive compared to DVD-Rs even when those were relevant for data storage. Even if a tech like this appears, I can't see it ever being worth the cost, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

question is when we will see it for storage purpose for hoarders

Bla bla bla... This is old technology now resurfaced for commercial use. The technology was invented in 1998 or 1997 by a Romanian.

Reminder that when CD-Roms first came out, IBM and other PC manufactures dismissed it as nothing more than an enterprise-grade data storage solution, as common civilians would have no use for such vast amounts of data storage. Can't wait for Call of Duty Black Ops 9 to be on a Petabyte disc, because its unfeasible to download it.

optical storage is very silly.

1.6 petaBYTES is 1600 terabytes. 1.6 petaBITS is 200 terabytes.

Imagine having it as a backup. And then accidentally sitting on it.

Could it compete with tape?

Dude get youe bits and bytes correct, you're a tech channel, come on

Not mentioning the difference betwen bit and byte since every other comment already mentions it but this only sounds great for archival storage, not so much for evrryday use. A laser reading off an optical disc is not gonna be faster than a traditional HDD let alone an SSD.

0:20 what is this, magnetic or optical? I mean we should talk about magnetic tapes too - I remember their really impressive boasts when they hit 50 GB and hard disks were barely at a few gigabytes. They were fighting exactly the same impressions of being a "past" technology, as long ago as that. I think your video needs more visual content. It also needs at least ONE technical diagram that shows something educational about the technology itself, if not one of the actual products being made. Nobody is expecting retail information of course, but any kind of information like manufacturer, vague pricing expectations, all of that is good too.

My NAS uses 20tb HDDs. I hope this petabyte disc makes it to market. There are like zero options for making physical backups of 20tb HDDs. Sure I can use another 20tb HDD as a backup, but the lifespan and fail rate would be about the same as the source drive.

@0:20 "...that can store 1.6 petabytes of data." @0:28 "...that's about 125 terabytes..." That is way off. 1.6 petabytes is approximately just over 1,600 terabytes (not 125 terabytes). Our host was off by nearly 13 times the correct figure. That is not a rounding error. That is a wildly huge error. @0:37 "...the world's largest hard drive holds about 100 terabytes." Our host is spewing nonsense. The world's largest hard drive holds 25 terabytes. Perhaps NASA has a one-of-a-kind hard drive, or the scientists at Area 51 have a 100 terabyte hard drive. But our host would not know about that. There are 100 terabyte storage drives. But they are not hard drives. They are 100% solid state based. Hard drives are mechanical devices, with spinning platters, and actuator arms that travel across the spinning platters. Whereas, solid state drives (SSDs) have no moving parts. SSDs are not hard drives. There are many other differences between hard drives and solid state drives. Their technologies are very different. They share some design attributes -- but very little. As of the date that our host posted this video (09/01/2024), there are no 100 terabyte hard drives.

I guess we now have a great way to back up our trillion images and video of family and friends

Just to do a quick correction here... The optical disc in question holds 1.6 PetaBITS, not PetaBYTES, which is a considerable difference in orders of magnitude. Were it 1.6 Petabytes, it'd be a ridiculous amount of storage an order of magnitude above what we've got today. That said, you do seem to self-correct later in the video - it is indeed larger than the current biggest hard drives, but you were a bit off in terms of the conversion. 1.6 Petabits comes out to about 200 TB. Personally I'd like to see if burning those discs ever made it to the consumer space. As-is that'd help for things like cold, archival storage, but obviously it's not very much good for things that aren't WORM-friendly.

Not knowing the difference between a byte and a bit can really screw your ability to title the video correctly.

That's great, but it's 68,000 times more than the BD discs I'm using now. Didn't they ever make a Terra byte disc?

How much would a system cost?

It is dead. No one is interested in nor manufactures optical media anymore. Long term archival is done exclusively using LTO tapes.

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The purpose is not for video usage, the times are over. But for long term data storage it might be a success. The most important thing: there has to a standard for drives that any company can rely on. No standard or high licensing fees, and a lower or non success.

Better for data storage than visual media. Some games now require hundreds of gigs be downloaded each time you want to install. Companies would rather you not own a physical copy though.

To get terabytes you multiply the petabyte value by 1000 1.6PB = 1600TB Easy as that No idea how you got 125TB

what the absolute fuck is this brain rot

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I hope it will be in a caddy format.

1.6 petabytes is not 125 TB I stopped watching after such a gross mistake. Look it up

The key question for me is how long will the disks last?

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This would suitable for servers.

This is indeed awesome technology, especially if you can continuously add on to the disc. How much would one disc cost? How fast can certain files be accessed on a full disc? In definite agreement that this will NOT be inexpensive, but the archival aspects of it are really interesting. Thanks for sharing this great information! Cheers!

Went there in the 90s fun place

I have several Kiss SHM Cds they sound awesome much better then the regular CD in my opinion!!

If I recall correctly, I purchased a few cassettes back in the 80s that were HALF SPEED dubbed, which were purported to be of higher quality. They sounded terrific.

I FINALLY got a vhs player after so many years of wanting one my mom got one at an estate sale for 10 bucks and it still works

There is another store very similar to active surplus called a1 electronics in etobico. Some stuff is overpriced but if you haggle a bit you can get very good deals there!

All of these VCR's are a ticking time bomb and eventually will succumb to unique failure.

Please where I can buy? I hate cd

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I bought a brand new Sylvania VCR from my local Best Buy in either 2008 or 2009, still new in box on the shelves.

My household made the move from VCR to VHS in 2002 as well, but here in Australia it was a few years after that I noticed during the mid 2000s VHS was no longer manufactured here in Australia, that was when the Blu Ray was introduced.

VCRs are still regarded as the most reliable if recording a programme in advance. Digital boxes can sometimes freeze when doing the same.