DVD storage at 20 Gigs?!?

[gizz72]

Greetings,

I was about to post this under CH/Science, but hey! It might be possible to do this too on Amigas. :-)
Here's the story--> The Golden aga is storage?

I hope that will be done on the Amiga? that would be fun! :-D

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings Argo,

Argo wrote:
20 Gigs, that's not much. I think I read on Slashdot not too long ago that some researchers has a way to get 1 Terrabyte.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/27/1316249&tid=126&tid=1

With that Kind of storage technology, one can store almost all the Amiga games in .ADF and Utilities ever released since 1985 to 2004. All in one whole DVD? Whoooooah!!!  :-o
There's only one dark side to it though. One would brag, "Hey I got the whole Aminet collection, wanna buy it for a buck?"

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
wasn't there a 38gig superdvd planned for the very near future?
and can't the normal dvd technique today store up to 18 gigs? (double sided, double layered)

I heard the technology would incorporate 4 layering scheme. by splitting laser or something... :-)

Regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetings Blob,

blobrana wrote:
"Pioneer has developed a Ultraviolet Laser that Promises 500GB Discs"

I can imagine how long it takes to format a DVD+RW on the Amiga, hmmm, 2 hours?  :-o More loooonger, sleeeepless nights. :lol:

@iama
Floppies are still essential on the Amiga, specially when formats like .ADF were needed to transfer back to floppy. Maybe compatibility issues. Besides, Only the Amiga can boot OS+GUI(Workbench) off from floppy better than any OSes AFAIK? :-P

@all
I'm not sure if others would agree to Trash Floppies Forever in favour of CDRW, DVDRW's and the like? Besides, I'd miss it. I miss the 5 1/2 already for the C64. It used to be in abundance. Now a rare relic. :-(
A bad thought crossed my mind: One day we wake up, prices of floppies are higher than prices of DVDR, CDR... No more companies manufacture floppies cause the need is no longer there. Blank Floppies for sale on Ebay at sky-high prices! How much a 5 1/2 floppies these days anyway(if they're still around)? I wonder :-?

Regards,

Gizz