Large discs (Was: Spectre & Meltdown

[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, TeoZ wrote:
> Hard drives NEVER keep up. Bragging about how many DVD's (90's technology) 
> you can store on current HD means little to people who have ultra HD Blueray 
> videos that take up to 100GB of space. Heck even a single game download can 
> be 50GB these days.

I'd be interested in hearing about opinions of the 100GB "M-disc".  I've 
heard that they have decent longevity, and, the "low" capacity ones are 
interchangeable with conventional DVDs.

I can still put 20 100GB DVDs (2017 technology) on a 2TB 2.5" Thin SATA.
However, I'm also looking for multi-terabyte storage.
Are higher capacity DVDs on their way?
Howzbout multi-TearByte SSDs?


> And I wouldn't mind one of those old networked DVD changers (I think Sony 
> sold them commercially) to play around with.

I still want one of the ones that Kieth Hensen designed. Converting it 
from CD to DVD would be completely TRIVIAL (finding DVD drives with 
suitable form factors and loading options)

--
Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com




> I always wanted Keith Hensen's "Kubik"? CD changer.  Big "carousel slide
> tray" full of 240?! CDs/DVDs, in a square box, with a drive in each
> corner.  The drives were SCSI, and the load/unload/select control was
> RS232. The big square boxes could be stacked, for a larger collection, and
> there was a trivial mod to make the tray removable, so that the top box
> could be swapped with as many trays as you had shelf space for.
>
> 'course hard drives caught up, and I now have about a thousand DVDs in
> MP4s on a shirt pocket HDD.  (including ALL of the Doctor Who's that were
> released on DVD, Red Dwarf 1 - XII, Dark Matter, Torchwood, Twilight Zone,
> Prisoner, Marx Brothers, Doc Martin, One Foot In The Grave, etc.) The DVD
> images (V .MP4) take over 5TB.